From the Yahoo Civil War Navy and Marine Forum.
Someone wrote in looking for more information on this man. He was the first Citadel graduate to serve in the CS Marine Corps after being a member of the famous Citadel Star of the West Battery which fired what some consider to be the first shots of the war on the Star of the West in Charleston Harbor.
Thurston was one of 22 officers selected to be the initial cadre of the Confederate Marines.
He was captured but made a daring escape from Union Fort Delaware and after the war was a business owner.
From the Biographical Sketches Commissioned Officers of the Confederate States Marine Corps.
The Confederate Marines!! --Old B-Runner
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