Lieutenant Browne

Our young friend JOHN BROWNE who enlisted in the volunteer service last Summer, was recently transferred from Co. D, 2nd Iowa Infantry, to the [First] Lieutenancy of a company in the 17th Regiment. He came up from Tennessee a few days since, and on arriving at Keokuk, he had barely time to be inducted into his new office, before he was ordered along with the 17th Regiment, back to the seat of war in Tennessee. His many friends here would have been gratified if he had been able to visit his home before returned into the land of the Secesh.

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday April 22, 1862