Illness Of Col. Brown

The friends of Colonel Brown, the gallant defender of Fort Pickens, will learn with sorrow that the dropsical symptoms developed some time since  by his labors and the climate of the gulf, have recently become so pronounced that it will probably be necessary to relieve him from his important command.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1