Thackston became President and Professor of Ancient Languages at Marshall College in Huntington, Virginia, now Marshall University in West Virginia, after his 1858 graduation from Randolph-Macon. He left the college and was a school principal in Putnam County, VA in 1860. He was working as a clerk in the Treasury Department in Richmond, a position he sought in 1862, when he was conscripted into Co. D of the 3rd VA Battalion Infantry Local Defense Troops on August 1, 1863. He spent much of 1864 detailed to the Treasury Department processing payments to the families of deceased soldiers or absent due to illness. He was hospitalized for nephritis at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA from November 25, 1864 through January 1865. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on May 5, 1865.
After the war he returned to West Virginia and taught, once again at Marshall college from 1874-1877 and serving as its principal from 1881-1884, when he left the teaching profession and entered business. He died on August 24, 1918 and is buried in Huntington, WV in Spring Hill Cemetery.
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