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Bailey Thornsbury Brown

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role in American Civil War

In Grafton
Bailey Thornsbury Brown, reputedly the first Union soldier to be killed in the war, was shot in Grafton a short time earlier (May 22) by Confederate sentries; he is buried at the Grafton National Cemetery.
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