Baldwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Captain Tomlinson Fort Newell August 7 1912
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Atlanta Constitution, August 9, 1912
August 9, 1912
Atlanta Constitution
FUNERAL TODAY OF CAPT. NEWELL
Long and Active Career of Prominent Citizen-Held Many Offices
The funeral of Captain T. F. Newell one of the state's most highly honored 
citizens, will be held this afternoon at his old home in Milledgeville. The 
interment will be in the family lot at that place.
  Captain T. F. Newell was born in 1838 and lived for nearly seventy years in 
the same residence in Milledgeville, erected by the same contractors who came 
out from Connecticut to construct the governor's hall when that town was made 
capital of the state. He graduated at Oglethorpe university. Here he was 
roommate and intimate companion of Sidney Lanier, the poet. 
Afterwards he graduated in law from the State University at Athens, taking his 
degree under Judge Howell Cobb, immediately before the outbreak of the civil 
war.
  He was among the first to enlist, and went out as a lieutenant in Captain 
Charles Conn's company, Forty-fifth Georgia regiment of infantry. When Captain 
Conn was killed in battle he succeeded to command. His regiment was attached to 
General Thomas' brigade. A.P. Hill's division, and Stonewall Jackson's corps. 
He was in all the famous fights with this famous fighting body. At 
Chancellorsville he was wounded in the knee.
  During the second day's fight at the battle of Gettysburg he received a wound 
which necessitated the amputation of his left foot. In this condition he was 
left on the field of battle and was taken prisoner by the federals. For 
seventeen months he was a prisoner of war and Fort McHenry and Fort Delaware. 
He was released by exchange of prisoners, arriving at Milledgeville just 
prior to the entrance to that town of Sherman on his march to the sea. Out of a 
family of eight before the war, one years after its close only himself and his 
eldest sister survived. This sister is now Mrs. Mary McCorkie, known throughout 
Georgia as "Big Auntie".
  Captain Newell became the reconstruction mayor of the old state capital. For 
a time he continued the practice of law, but later gave this up to look after 
large plantations in central and south Georgia. In 1868 he married Ann Lane 
Colquitt, daughter of General Alfred H. Colquitt, for many years governor and 
United States senator. She died in 1898.
  Captain Newell was member of the state constitutional convention of 1877. He 
was for a number of years president of the board of trustees of the state 
sanitarium. He also served as one of the first trustees of the Girl's Normal 
and Industrial college. He was for thirty years a steward of the Milledgeville 
Methodist church.
  Surviving Captain Newell are the following children: Alfred C. Newell, of 
Atlanta; Captain Isaac Newell, United States army, now stationed at West Point, 
N.Y.; Tomlinson F. Newell, Jr., of Atlanta; Fred T. Newell, Albany, Ga.; Miss 
Mary Newell, Columbus, Ga; Mrs. William Schultz, of Washington, D.C.; and Miss 
Colquitt Newell, now taking post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md.

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