George H. Hudson is the first Mormon to die in combat during a U.S. War. As a private in Battery B of the Utah Light Artillery, he is killed by Filipinos during the Philippine Insurrection at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Filipinos want true independence, not to be a new colony of the United States.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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