When Willis Wade Newton was born on 8 October 1848, in Maysville, Buckingham, Virginia, United States, his father, John Edwin Newton, was 35 and his mother, Mary Anna Duncan, was 23. He married Nancy Catherine Guthrie on 15 June 1870, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Curdsville, Buckingham, Virginia, United States in 1870 and Marshall District, Buckingham, Virginia, United States in 1900. He died on 24 August 1902, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Dillwyn, Buckingham, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
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