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	Detail: Service Record C.S.A. Date: 1861 Notes: Historical Data Systems, comp.. American Civil War Soldiers Actual text: Side Served: Confederacy State Served: North Carolina Service Record: Enlisted as a Private Promoted to Full Lieutenant 3rd Class on 01 April 1862 Discharged for promotion Company F, 1st Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 01 April 1862 Commission in Company B, 56th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 01 April 1862. POW on 22 May 1863 at Gum Swamp, NC Confined on 25 May 1863 at New Berne, NC (Estimated day) Paroled on 26 May 1863 at New Berne, NC (Estimated day) Exchanged on 28 May 1863 at City Point, VA Returned on 01 July 1863 (Estimated day) Killed Company B, 56th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 20 April 1864 in Plymouth, NC Web address: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm ****************************************************************************************************************************************************** Excerpts from Book: Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina , in the great war 1861-'65 Written by members of the respective commands Clark's Regiments ************ '{Lieutenant B. W. Thornton, of Company B, was mortally wounded, the ball entering just above the eye, and coming out near the ear, but was still able, though his sight was gone, to recognize the writer when he visited him with other wounded that evening. He was a faithful and efficient soldier from Fayetteville.'******Volume III – Page 347 ****************************************************************************************************************************************************** Excerpt from The Heritage of Sampson County North Carolina Volume II, Kent Wrench, Editor, 2005, page 327. An initial Thornton Cemetery on Alex Benton Road near Highway 13 east was badly damaged by Sherman’s troops during the Civil War. Shown below, is the wording on the large shiny new granite stone that angered the soldiers. He Rests Here Lt. Benjamin W. Thornton 56th N. C. Troops Aged 24 years On the 20th Day of April 1864 while gallantly leading His men in a charge upon The enemy’s works at Plymouth, N. c. he was Pierced in the head by a Minie ball, and expired on the 25th of the same month. A Country’s call obeyed her wrongs redressed God calls him hence To mingle with the blessed Footmarker: B.W.T. Infromation from Jean Thornton Johnson: Albert Herring, deceased, former Mayor of Newton Grove and his wife Ann assembled the pieces to record the message. A century after the stones had been destroyed or badly damaged, the land owner bulldozed all of the tombstones into the creek. While using the creek for watering hogs, Ernie and Ronnie Thornton discovered the pieces. They brought Benjamin, Whitfield, and Averitt’s stone pieces into their back yard. Two weeks before Albert Herring died suddenly with a heart attack, he showed the pieces to Jean Thornton Johnson. She asked him to ask Connie Thornton, ex-wife and widow of Ronnie if she could have the pieces for the Uriah Thornton Cemetery on Emmett Thornton Road. With his sudden death, he did not get to ask Connie. The Saturday before Jean called to make the request herself, Mexicans had hauled the pieces to the dump at Connie’s request. Connie said the only stone left was a base that was so heavy they could not lift it. It was the Lieutenant’s base. The base was moved to the Uriah Thornton Cemetery by Wes and Rick Thornton.
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