THRUSTON, Charles Mynn (throo'-ston), soldier, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1738; died near New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1812. He was educated at William and Mary college, and after prosecuting his theological studies in England was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal church in Gloucester county. Subsequently he removed to Clarke county, and officiated in a church, near Shenandoah river, that is still standing. At the beginning of the Revolution he raised a company, was commissioned as captain, and badly wounded at Trenton. On his recovery he was appointed colonel, being known as the "warrior parson." After the war he was a judge and a member of the legislature, and in 1808 removed to Louisiana.--His son, Buckner, jurist, born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1763; died in Washington, D. C., 30 August, 1845, received a classical education, emigrated in early life to Kentucky, and there studied law and was admitted to the bar. He practised in Frankfort, taking an active part in public affairs, and was elected United States senator in 1805, declining the post of United States judge of the territory of Orleans, to which he had been appointed immediately before. On 1 July, 1809, he resigned his seat; in the senate to accept the appointment of United States judge for the District of Columbia, which office he held until his death.--Buckner's son, Charles Mynn, soldier, born in Lexington, Kentucky, 22 February, 1789; died in Cumberland, Maryland, 18 February, 1873, entered the United States military academy in 1813, and lit July, 1814, was commissioned as lieutenant of artillery, and assigned to duty on Governor's island, New York harbor, where he was engaged in erecting fortifications till the close of the war with Great Britain. He became adjutant of his regiment in 1821, and during the Florida war in 1835-'6 was acting adjutant-general of the Florida army. Resigning on 31 August, 1836, he settled on a farm at Cumberland, Maryland He became President of a bank in 1838, and mayor in 1861. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the volunteer service as brigadier-general, and served in guarding the Baltimore and Ohio railroad till April, 1862, when he resigned--Buckner's grandson, Gates Phillips, soldier, born in Dayton, Ohio, 11 June, 1835, was graduated at Miami university in 1855, studied law, and began practice in Dayton, where he entered the volunteer service at the beginning of the civil war as a captain in the 1st Ohio infantry, He was promoted major and assistant adjutant-general on 4 September, 1863, and subsequently lieutenant-colonel, for special acts of gallantry at Shiloh and Stone River, trod was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general of volunteers for galantry at Chickamauga. Since the war he has followed his profession at Nashville, Tennessee He is corresponding secretary of the Tennessee historical society, has contributed articles on military history and other subjects to northern and southern magazines, and has in preparation an illustrated work on the mound-builders, describing recent discoveries in the vicinity of Nashville and elsewhere.