Life Span
to
Full name
Noah Brooks
Place of Birth
Castine, ME
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
Family
Barker Brooks (father), Margaret Perkins (mother), Caroline Augusta (wife)
Occupation
Farmer or Planter
Businessman
Journalist
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Whig
Republican
Government
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Republican Party
Date Title
Recollection by Noah Brooks, April 1863, Army of the Potomac
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” July 1865
Chicago Style Entry Link
Burlingame, Michael, ed. Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Brooks, Noah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/34285.