The Grafton National Cemetery in Grafton, West Virginia, the first national military cemetery in West Virginia

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The initial Union Army casualty of the Civil War fell in Grafton on May 22, 1861, when Thornberry Bailey Brown, was killed by a Confederate soldier. Brown is buried in the Grafton National Cemetery.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.