Henry Brown

Reverend Henry A. Brown, Rough Rider chaplain, came to Prescott's St. Luke's Episcopal Church in 1897, where he was active in raising money for the Cuban cause. Brown performed Captain O'Neill's burial service, and, in 1899, went back to Cuba to retrieve O'Neill's body which was reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery. After the war he remained in the army as a chaplain.

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Reverend Henry A. Brown (fourth from left), Rough Rider chaplain, June 1898. Others are (from left) Major George Dunn, Major Alexander Brodie, Major General Joseph Wheeler, Colonel Wood, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt.

By permission of UCR/California Museum of Photography, Keystone-Mast Collection

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Chaplain Henry Brown leads religious services for the Rough Riders at Tampa, June 1898.

Courtesy Arizona Room, Phoenix Public Library.