He lived in Rutherford County, North Carolina at the time the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in Company D, North Carolina 16th Infantry Regiment on 11 Feb 1863 at the age of 16. The 16th North Carolina participated in 27 major battles.
Of the 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Pvt. R.M. Thorn was one. He lost his life at the age of 18.
His father, Nathaniel Thorn, lost 3 sons in the Civil War and two of those sons' bodies never made it home for burial. Robert Milton Thorn is buried somewhere in a mass grave in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Of the 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Pvt. R.M. Thorn was one. He lost his life at the age of 18.
His father, Nathaniel Thorn, lost 3 sons in the Civil War and two of those sons' bodies never made it home for burial. Robert Milton Thorn is buried somewhere in a mass grave in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
He lived in Rutherford County, North Carolina at the time the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in Company D, North Carolina 16th Infantry Regiment on 11 Feb 1863 at the age of 16. The 16th North Carolina participated in 27 major battles.
Of the 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Pvt. R.M. Thorn was one. He lost his life at the age of 18.
His father, Nathaniel Thorn, lost 3 sons in the Civil War and two of those sons' bodies never made it home for burial. Robert Milton Thorn is buried somewhere in a mass grave in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Of the 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Pvt. R.M. Thorn was one. He lost his life at the age of 18.
His father, Nathaniel Thorn, lost 3 sons in the Civil War and two of those sons' bodies never made it home for burial. Robert Milton Thorn is buried somewhere in a mass grave in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
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