Medal of Honor
May 24, 1861
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company A, 11th New York Infantry (Ellsworth’s Zouaves)
The Citation
Sources ↓Killed the murderer of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House Alexandria, Va. First Civil War deed to merit Medal of Honor.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Francis Edwin Brownell — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000624
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- Troy, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- fb960f803a72cc012997917a49653f7789372e4a537074916b62c9fda9c1495a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile expands the middle name and unit designation and preserves Private as the action rank and First Lieutenant as the later/highest rank.