Brig. Gen. (CSA) Seth Maxwell Barton b. 8 Sep 1829 Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA d. 11 Apr 1900 Washington, District of Columbia, USA: BARTON One Name Study

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1829 - 1900 (70 years)

Name	Seth Maxwell Barton
Title	Brig. Gen. (CSA)
Birth	8 Sep 1829	Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA [2, 3]
Gender	Male
Military Information	1845 [4]
	applied for admittance to U. S. Military Academy
Military Information	1 Jul 1845-1 Jul 1849	USMA West Point, Orange Co., New York, USA [3]
	Cadet, graduated 28th in class
Military Information	19 Apr 1850 [3]
	2ndLT, 1st USA Infantry
Military Information	1 Jun 1853 [3]
	1stLT, USA
Military Information	1 May 1855-31 Oct 1857 [3]
	Regimental Adjutant
Military Information	31 Oct 1857 [3]
	CAPT, USA - resigned 11 June 1861
Military Information	8 Jul 1861 [3]
	Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA
Military Information	14 Mar 1862 [3]
	Brigadier General, CSA
Military Information	Jul 1863	Vicksburg (Siege of Vicksburg), Warren Co., Mississippi, USA
	Captured and later paroled
Military Information	06 Apr 1865	near Farmville (Battle of Sayler's Creek), Prince Edward Co., Virginia, USA
	Captured on the Confederate's Black Thursday. Subsequently imprisoned at Fort Warren at Boston Harbor.
Occupation	Jun 1870 [5]
	Land Agent
Census	01 Jun 1870	Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA [5]
	enumerated with his wife and two children in the household of his brother Judge William S. Barton
Occupation	Jun 1880 [6]
	C & M Engineer
Census	08 Jun 1880	Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA [6]
	head-of-household
Death	11 Apr 1900	Washington, District of Columbia, USA [3]
Burial	Fredericksburg (City Cem.), Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City), Virginia, USA
Person ID	I5065	Barton Database \| Lineage Rufus Barton, b 1606, England - DNA Lineage V
Last Modified	20 Jun 2013

Father	Thomas Bowerbank Barton, b. 6 Mar 1792 d. 16 Oct 1871 (Age 79 years)
Mother	Susan Catherine Stone, b. 1796 d. 1875 (Age 79 years)
Marriage	1820 [7, 8]
Family ID	F1896	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Marianne/Marianna E. Jennifer, b. Abt 1828 d. 23 Jan 1915, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA (Age ~ 87 years) [9]

Children

	1. Jennifer Barton
	2. Maxwell Barton
	3. Daniel S. T. Barton, b. 1867, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA
	4. William Maxwell Barton, b. 6 Jan 1869, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA d. 4 Sep 1948, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)

Family ID F13592 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 18 Jul 2009

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	Birth - 8 Sep 1829 - Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA
	Military Information - Cadet, graduated 28th in class - 1 Jul 1845-1 Jul 1849 - USMA West Point, Orange Co., New York, USA
	Military Information - Captured and later paroled - Jul 1863 - Vicksburg (Siege of Vicksburg), Warren Co., Mississippi, USA
	Military Information - Captured on the Confederate's Black Thursday. Subsequently imprisoned at Fort Warren at Boston Harbor. - 06 Apr 1865 - near Farmville (Battle of Sayler's Creek), Prince Edward Co., Virginia, USA
	Census - enumerated with his wife and two children in the household of his brother Judge William S. Barton - 01 Jun 1870 - Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA
	Census - head-of-household - 08 Jun 1880 - Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City) , Virginia, USA
	Death - 11 Apr 1900 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA
	Burial - - Fredericksburg (City Cem.), Spotsylvania Co. (now Independent City), Virginia, USA

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Brig. Gen. Seth Maxwell Barton, CSA
Seth Maxwell Barton was a U.S. Army officer and, then, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He later became noted as a chemist.

Notes

!CITED in "Dictionary of American Biography", Vol. II, 1929 (BART218).

!MILITARY service: graduated from West Point in 1849; assigned to infantry; on 11 June 1861 resigned his commission to join Confederate Army as Captain, infantry. July 1861 appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd Arkansas regiment.

!CITED Lee's Lieutenants, A Study in Command by Douglas S. Freeman, p. 237-238. "... formerly a Brigadier in Stevenson's Division, was exchanged after the surrender of Pemberton's army and was assigned to the command of Lewis Armistead's old brigade, Pickett's Division."

!CITED "Historical Sketches of Barton's (Later Stovall's) Georgia Brigade, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A." by Pvt. Joseph Bogle and Capt. Wm. L. Calhoun, Confederate Pub. Co., University AL, 1984 (BART330)

!CITED in "Biographical Sketches" by S. Bassett French; originals in Archives Division, Virginia State Library - film #029,664 at Mesa AZ FHC (BART419)

!INFO found on Internet at http://members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/bartonsm.htm on 13 Jan 2004.
Info found at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [10]

Sources

[S3637] William Henry Powell, List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900, (L. R. Hamersly & Co.).
[S1180] 1850 U. S. Federal Census, M432_977 pg 366 img 248.
age 16
[S5393] United States, Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865.
[S4599] U. S. Military and Naval Academies, Cadet Records and Applications 1805-1908.
[S3501] 1870 US Census, M593_1679 pg 377.
[S3502] 1880 US Census, T9_1391 FHL film 1255391-pg 455.3000 ED 139.
[S1135] Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850.
[S3795] Find A Grave www.findagrave.com.
memorial ID# 5005142
[S3921] Washington Post, The [DC], 24 Jan 1915, p. 12.
[S3508] Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/), 23 Feb 2007.

Brig. Gen. (CSA) Seth Maxwell Barton[1]

Brig. Gen. (CSA) Seth Maxwell Barton^[1]