Frederick Newman

Birth Year: 1842
Birth Place: St. Louis, MO
Residence at Enlistment: Arenzville, IL
Regiment(s): Co K, 27th IL Inf
Military Notes:

Entered service in 1861; taken prisoner at Stones River and exchanged; mustered out on 20 Sep 1864 at Springfield, IL.

Remarks: Resident of Arenzville when he entered service

Military rolls show him as “single, farmer” resident of Arenville, IL, when he entered service. Wounded, taken prisoner at Stone River; exchanged. Subsequent records not identified. He is likely NOT the Fred Newman in the 1870 and 1880 census, married and living in Cass County, who was a younger man.