The following article comes from the December 10, 1862, issue of The Prescott Journal:
DR. THORNHILL.—Dr. S. P. Thornhill of Hudson, Surgeon of the Eigth Wis. Reg., has recently been dismissed from the service. A correspondent of the State Journal writes as follows :
We were astonished this morning at the reception of an order from the Secretary of War dismissing Surgeon Thornhill of our regiment from the service for neglect of duty. When or where he has been guilty of neglecting his duty as a surgeon, we are at a loss to imagine and the order comes entirely unthought of. The fact that an accusation against him had been made or was intended to be made by anybody, either in or out of the army, had never come to the knowledge of the Dr., or of anybody in the regiment. We are sorry to part with him. We have known him as one of the best men— with faults, of course, but generous hearted and honorable, and every man in the regiment had the most perfect confidence in his skill as a surgeon.
This short obituary is from The Hudson Star and Times of March 21, 1879:
Dr. Thornhill, a former resident of Hudson, and well and favorably known throughout the State, died at Austin, Minn, on the 9th of hemorrhage. He was 58 years of age at the time of his demise.
The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin 