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G.J. Newton
(1839 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Battery Officer
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
A wealthy merchant's son, in 1860 he was 21 years old and lived with his parents and 3 siblings in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861 as First Sergeant of the Troup Artillery. He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant of the battery in June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action in Maryland with his battery.
The rest of the War
He was 23 years old when he died of pneumonia while on furlough home to Athens, GA in February 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Evidence of his presence in Maryland from a 15 September receipt for ammunition. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a 1/6 plate ruby ambrotype in the collection of David W. Vaughan, and published to accompany his article Georgians in Gray Part II: A Photographic Look at the Empire State's Confederate Soldiers in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 2, Summer 2005.
Birth
03/04/1839; Athens, GA
Death
02/18/1863; Athens, GA; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30425]