Franklin Perry Newby

In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer on his widowed mother Mahala's place (with 2 slaves, one of them 90 years old) at Lima in the Greenville District, SC. He enlisted on 14 April (or 3 June) 1861 in Greenville, SC as 5th Corporal of Company G, 4th South Carolina Infantry. He was sick in hospitals from July to at least October, reduced to Private, and was discharged on 21 November 1861.

He enrolled again at Greenville on 5 May (or Columba on 14 April) 1862 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, First South Carolina Infantry.

He was in command of his company as senior man present at the start of the Maryland Campaign.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 7 February 1863. He was captured at Deep Bottom, VA on 14 August 1864 and held briefly at Fortress Monroe, VA and Washington, DC on the way to Fort Delaware. He was released after taking an oath of allegiance there on 17 June 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Bates Township, Greenville County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as F. Perry Newby and Francis P. Newby, with Campaign detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900, also as Perry Newby. His memorial is on Findagrave.

08/1832; Greenville District, SC

1903; Greenville County, SC