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The First to Die – Part I | Newsletter Archive | History Tours

A prominent series of articles by History Tours explores the first American victims of various wars: First to die

: Private Kenneth Shadrick is often cited as the first American soldier to die in combat during the Korean War. He was killed on July 5, 1950, by machine-gun fire from a North Korean tank. The First to Die – Part I |

: Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed. He was shot in 1861 while removing a Confederate flag from a hotel roof in Alexandria, Virginia. Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed

: Crispus Attucks , a man of African and Native American descent, was the first of five people killed during the Boston Massacre in 1770. He is widely considered the first casualty of the American Revolution.

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