Grainger County Court Records, 1866

 

FamilySearch. Grainger Co., Tennessee. 1866.

A recurring topic on the blog over the years has been the complicated cases involving Captain John A. Thornhill. While checking FamilySearch Labs' for overlooked or new documents related to the Thornhill family in Tennessee, I stumbled onto Grainger County Court records for the one of the many cases involving the men of the 9th Tennessee Cavalry company who were present when Thornhill was shot and killed. The screen shot above is from the State vs Riggs in Grainger County, which I previously wrote about in 2017.

This case file helps cover a gap in my timeline on the cases. I'm mainly posting this so I can come back to it later over the holiday break. There are hundreds of pages of court documents and testimony, newspaper articles, and military records involving the Thornhill case. As I shared back in September, the Thornhill story has all the elements of a compelling legal and murder mystery action thriller, set at the end of the Civil War in a rare case of inter-army fighting, rather than between the Union and Confederate armies.