Will//Wm. Newsom, son of J. N. Newsom who owned a plantation near Nashville, is recorded in Sam Newsom’s pension application papers as a 1st Lieutenant.

Sam says his Master died at Chickamauga, however his recollection at that advanced age, it well could have been Murfreesboro.

Sam’s application C270 was recorded from Davidson County, Tenn.

I have not been able to ID Will using surnames: Newson, Newsome or Newsom in any Tennessee unit. Nor can a locate a census record for his father.