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Thornsbury Bailey Brown
Thornsbury Bailey Brown (May 15, 1829 – May 22, 1861) of Taylor County, Virginia (now West Virginia) is generally considered the first Union soldier killed by a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. Brown, a member of a Virginia militia or volunteer company which supported the Union with the grade of private, was killed by a member of a Virginia militia or volunteer company which supported the Confederacy at Fetterman, Virginia (now West Virginia) on May 22, 1861. The members of both companies were from the same general vicinity of Taylor County.
==Death==
On May 22, 1861, two members of the Grafton Guards,〔The Grafton Guards were commanded by Captain George R. Latham. They became Company B of the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (originally 2d (U.S.) Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment). They were mustered into the Union Army at Wheeling on May 25, 1861, three days after Brown's death. Brown had been mustered into the Grafton Guards on May 20, 1861. Hannings, Bud. (''Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Encyclopedia''. ) Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010. ISBN 978-0-7864-4464-9. Retrieved May 19, 2011. p. 44〕 Lieutenant Daniel Wilson and Private Thornsbury〔Spelled in some sources as Thornsberry Bailey Brown. Occasionally, the 's' has been left out of both versions of his first name.〕 Bailey Brown went from Grafton, Virginia to a rally in Pruntytown, Virginia to recruit men for the Union army. When they returned that evening, they encountered three members of a Virginia militia company with Confederate sympathies, George E. Glenn, Daniel W. S. Knight, and William Reese of the Letcher Guards,〔The Letcher Guards were commanded by Captain John A. Robinson.〕 who were on picket duty at the Fetterman Bridge. The Letcher Guards would become a company of the Confederate 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment.〔Lang, Theodore F. ''Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865''. Baltimore: The Deutsch Publishing Company, 1895. . Retrieved May 4, 2011. p. 211〕 The bridge was located at the crossing of the Northwestern Turnpike with the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The pickets ordered Wilson and Brown to halt. Brown responded, possibly at Wilson's order to test the Confederates,〔Johnson, Clint. (''Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites'' ). Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1999. ISBN 0-89587-184-X. Retrieved May 11, 2011. p. 79〕 by firing his pistol. The shot injured Knight's ear. Knight, and perhaps his two companions,〔Several accounts state Brown was struck in the chest by three bullets, although some accounts say Knight fired a pistol rather than a musket which may have allowed him to fire more than one shot. Lang, p. 211 says Knight fired an old flintlock musket filled with slugs, which could have enabled him to inflict three wounds on Brown with one shot.〕 then fired at Brown and killed him. According to the official and more generally accepted story, T. Bailey Brown thus became the first Union combat death of the American Civil War, or perhaps more precisely, the first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
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