before April 1862. In May, his older brother, Isaac Thomas Newton, enlisted in the same company, known as the “Wiregrass Rifles.”
By June 1862, Lawton’s Georgia Brigade, to which Newton’s regiment belonged, joined Stonewall Jackson’s command in the Shenandoah Valley. From there they marched to the Seven Days’ battles around Richmond, where three of the Wiregrass Rifles were wounded. Isaac Thomas Newton was left behind at the Lynchburg Girls Seminary Hospital due to illness. He died on June 19, 1862,
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