Newton Knight enlisted as a Private in Captain James L. Sansom's Company, 8th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers**, August 17, 1862 in Jasper County, recorded on September 6, 1861 as "on furlough-18 inst (enrolled with this understanding) age 25, no other record

**This company was successively designated as Captain Sansom's Company, (Old) Company H, and (New) Company E, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry