Biography
Spencer Kellogg Brown was raised in the free-state struggle in Kansas. Spencer Kellogg Brown served the Union as a scout and agent before being captured and charged with spying. Held at Richmond, he was condemned by the Confederacy and hanged there on 25 September 1863. A memoir drawn from his prison letters was published after his death.
The Fort McHenry return records admission on December 30, 1861; this is a prison admission, not a separately verified physical arrest day. The individual disposition or conditions read: Physician; still confined at post February 16, 1862. Source: Official Records, Series II, Volume II, printed page 228, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n243/mode/1up.
Photo: Baker, Utica, New York (credit printed on the original card). Borders cropped from the original scan.