"I cannot make that call. I find it difficult to believe local defense troops, unskilled soldiers, would have been transferred into North Carolina."

I agree with you George, somewhere I had read that soldiers conscripted into Confederate service were bound to stay within their particular state. I saw that either in the 1863 Conscription Act or 1864 and probably the later. This is to say a Confederate soldier who may have been drafted in 1864 from Tennessee was allowed to follow his unit into other states but he could not be transferred to another states unit as an example.

James Newton also has Confederate CMSR's under Sullivan County Reserves, Tennessee Local Defense Troops on fold 3. He was listed as present in the roster of June of 1863. This does appear to be the same soldier.

This is what makes some of these biographies so difficult at times. About the only thing I can do is to bounce it off other researchers. As for now he is what I call a definite maybe as being the same soldier listed in the North Carolina Conscripts.

Thanks for your time George.