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(c. 1819 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 41 year old lawyer and planter with 26 slaves in Talbotton, GA. He was commissioned Captain, Company K, 27th Georgia Infantry on 10 September 1861 and was elected the Regiment's first Colonel as it was organized later that month (to date from 10 or 11 September). He was cited during the Seven Days battles of June 1862 by General D.H. Hill, who said
The Sixth and Twenty-seventh Georgia, of this brigade, commanded by those pure, brave, noble Christian soldiers Lieut. Col. J. M. Newton and Col. Levi B. Smith, behaved most heroically, and maintained their ground when half their number had been struck down.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg while in command of his regiment on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1819
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19497]
2 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 31851]