"Gold is king."

from the March 31, 1858 New Orleans Times-Picayune

from the July 17, 1858 Council Bluffs Nonpareil

 RESACA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_I._Thornton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_campaign

Gaineswood was finished Just prior to the Civil War. When General Leonidas Polk's division of troops was camped at Demopolis in 1864, Polk stayed at Gaineswood, having been a classmate of Whitfield's at the University of North Carolina.   https://www.historic-structures.com/al/demopolis/gaineswood.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Resaca

Recollections of the War https://www.militarymuseum.org/Thornton.pdf

from the March 3, 1895 San Francisco Examiner

from the July 28, 1868 San Francisco Examiner

from the August 28, 1885 Sacramento Bee

from the June 5, 1887 San Francisco Examiner

from the October 30, 1887 St. Louis Globe-Democrat

from the May 22, 1892 Los Angeles Herald

from the August 2, 1892 San Francisco Examiner

from the March 6, 1895 San Francisco Examiner 

from the August 11, 1906 Eureka (Nevada) Sentinel

 I turned on the computer yesterday morning and saw an article title on the screen headlined

The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Lincoln End Slavery  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-60-000-telegram-that-helped-lincoln-end-slavery?utm_source=pocket-newtab

and the last word in the first paragraph was "Nevada." I said to myself, "I bet Harry Innes, Jr. was connected to this." 

And sure enough, I was right!

The success of the $60,000 telegram in August 1864, along with the Confederate defeats @ Mobile Bay and Atlanta, insured Lincoln would win reelection, continue to beat the Confederacy into unconditional surrender and annihilate all hope for Southern Independence.

  Recollection of the War by a
Confederate Officer from California
BY HARRY INNES THORNTON, Jr.

https://www.militarymuseum.org/Thornton.pdf

 EARLY THANKSGIVING @ LA BOMBAS 

 9 things ya didn't know about General Sherman https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-william-tecumseh-sherman

https://shpo.nv.gov/nevadas-historical-markers/historical-markers/stewart-nye-residence

 A little anecdote may make a good closing for this sketch. One day, when General Sherman was before Atlanta and Bragg was in command of the Confederate army in his front, Bragg sent a flag of truce to Sherman. Thornton heard the order given and begged to go along. The little company passed through the union lines and came upon Sherman's headquarters. One side of Sherman's tent was thrown back and Sherman was seen within bending over a map and talking to a group of officers around him and gesticulating in his impetuous way. As the flag of truce was announced, all in the tent stood at attention. The ranking officer approached General Sherman. They had been friends before the war. Sherman greeted him cordially and presented him to the officers around him. Then the Confederate officer presented those who had accompanied him, until it came to Thornton, when Sherman said: "One moment.'' Looking intently at Thornton in his colonel's uniform, he said : T had the honor of being associated with you in the trial of the case of Lucas Turner & Co. vs. Langston's Express Company, in Downieville, California. The trial began on the 16th day of February, 1854, and lasted four days. It was a hot fight, but we licked 'em. I am glad to see you, Col. Thornton." Then added, "Colonel Harry I. Thornton." Then he turned to his officers and introduced Thornton as an old California friend.

 

from the December 11, 1873 CHICAGO WEEKLY POST

Sawyer's first BAMA game!

Sawyer's first BAMA game!

 

 "Follow your bliss." ~ Joseph Campbell [1904-1987]

Thorn Hill https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-063-0093

Thorn Hill on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornhill_(Forkland,_Alabama)

Thorn Hill at the Library of Congress https://loc.gov/pictures/item/al0209/

Fall Hill on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Hill

KATE THORNTON [1842-1870], 1859 GRADUATE OF MRS. STAFFORD'S SCHOOL IN TUSCALOOSA

from the August 24, 1859 TUSCALOOSA INDEPENDENT MONITOR

  

produced by Brock Jones

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49793814/cathrine-marshall-thornton

March 3, 1895 San Francisco Examiner

Betty Woolf Thornton

"This is a photo of them in 1920.  In the background was Betty’s father Judge Woolf who was the probate judge for Marengo County.  He lived at Thornhill in his later years. Betty and he are buried in Dayton, AL."~ Brock Jones

page 97 of STARS FELL ON ALABAMA by Carl Carmer:

Miss Betty said," I brought this old love letter of a planter's son out here for you to see. It doesn't belong to us but I borrowed it because I thought you would be interested. They wrote a different style in those days."