FOUR YEARS IN THE WAR – A MEMOIR BY MICHAEL THORNTON, 53RD PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

FOUR YEARS IN THE WAR – A MEMOIR BY MICHAEL THORNTON, 53RD PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

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Edited by David L. Richards. 2024, Chamouni Grove Press.  Softcover, 60 pgs. B&W photos.

The full title of the book is Four Years in the War – A Memoir by Michael Thornton, Late Private, Corporal, Sergeant and Second Lieutenant, Company “H”, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865. An interesting memoir describing one man’s journey through the American Civil War. Thorton put his memoirs on paper in 1882, about 20 years after the war. He was a 16 year old farm hand when he enrolled in Sept. 1861 in Milton, PA.  The organization was incorporated into Co. H, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry. In time, the 53rd was ranked among the finest regiments fielded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the war. Unfortunately, the survivors never recorded a detailed regimental history; Thornton’s small contribution adds to the meager historic record of this outstanding fighting regiment.  [ld][ph:L]

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