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Federal (USV)

Private

John Greene Thornton

(1841 - 1872)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, a clerk from Grafton, he enlisted in Company K, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 1 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was actually captured there.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, then a paroled prisoner in the camp at Annapolis, MD by 15 October 1862. He mustered out on 28 July 1864 at Worcester, MA. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company F, 4th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery on 20 August 1864, and was mustered out on 17 June 1865 in Washington, DC.

After the War

He died young, age 31, in 1872.

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Alice A. Thurston (1842-1891) in July 1865.

Birth

05/11/1841; Grafton, MA

Death

06/05/1872; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, North Grafton, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 200 - 203 [AotW citation 5972]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/Roster/p111.htm#i1671 [AotW citation 27733]

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