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Dedicated to the Memory of Thornsbury Bailey Brown

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Thornsbury Bailey Brown of Company B, 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, was the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War, losing his life on this spot on May 22, 1861.
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