On This Date in History - May 22, 1861 - 1st Union Casualty of Civil War

On May 22, 1861, in what’s generally regarded as the first Union combat fatality of the Civil War, Pvt. Thornsbury Bailey Brown was shot and killed by a Confederate soldier at Fetterman Bridge in present-day West Virginia.

Click here for more information on this story and the location of his gravesite at Grafton National Cemetery.

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Long-time Civil War reenactor, finishing his B.A. degree in History from Concordia University - St. Paul, author of "Muskets and Memories: A Modern Man's Journey through the Civil War" and member of the Saint Croix Civil War Roundtable.
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