author
Andrew Brown
1844–1915
A Union Army veteran from Illinois, he turned the memories of Company K into a detailed Civil War roster and record meant for surviving soldiers, their families, and local history readers. His book preserves both military service and the personal stories behind it.
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About the author
Born on April 7, 1844, in Newark, Illinois, he enlisted at seventeen in Company K of the 20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served in the Civil War. Later in life he became known as the author of Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Roster and Record, a work prepared after a reunion of surviving members of the regiment.
In the book's preface, he explains that he was assigned the task of compiling the company roster at the regiment's annual reunion in Chicago on September 8, 1893. The result, published in Yorkville, Illinois, in 1894, was intended for surviving comrades, descendants, relatives, and anyone interested in the history of the company.
He died on August 30, 1915, in Aurora, Illinois. Today, his work remains a valuable firsthand record of the soldiers of Company K and a small but vivid piece of Civil War memory.