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Confederate (CSA)

Private

George H. Thornton

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer, he enlisted at Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the hip and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD but died there of his wounds on or about 16 September 1862.

His father David filed a claim for his final pay in February 1863.

After the War

He was originally buried at Burkittsville but may have been reinterred in the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, MD in about 1874.

References & notes

His Civil War service from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf] and from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

09/16/1862; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33917]

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