The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Francis Edwin Brownell, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 24 May 1861, while serving with Company A, 11th New York Infantry (Ellsworth’s Zouaves), in action at Alexandria, Virginia. Private Brownell killed the murderer of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia.