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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Napoleon Bonaparte Newsom

(1833 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was in Company E, enlisitng as Private on 27 May 1861. Appointed 1st Corporal September 17, 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Paroled at Hoffman Hospital October 1, 1862. Transferred to Company G, May 1864. No later record.

After the War

He was a farmer and city marshall in Reynolds, Taylor County, GA.

References & notes

Basic information from Ranger951. Additional details from genealogists and US Federal censuses. He died later than 1900. His middle name is seen both with and without an 'e' at the end.

Birth

05/00/1833 in GA

Death

Date not known; burial in New Hope (Little Vine) Cemetery, Reynolds, GA

Notes

1   Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/6th_inf_regt.html  [AotW citation 9627]