The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Robert Burns Brown, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 25 November 1863, while serving with Company A, 15th Ohio Infantry, in action at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee. Upon reaching the ridge through concentrated fire, Private Brown approached the Color Bearer of the 9th Mississippi Infantry (Confederate States of America), demanded his surrender with threatening gesture and took him prisoner with his regimental flag.