John G Barnwell, Jr.- please help!!

[namabile]

Can anyone provide any information or resources? I am purchasing an instructions for field artillery manual that had belonged (signed ) from John G Barnwell, JR. and trying to tie back as much information to it as possible
Could this be the same person as John G. Barnwell South Carolina Major, Corps of Artillery, Provisional Confederate Army?

I have also found this iamge, see link below. Could this be related
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Beaufort-Carolina-station-Formerly.htm

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[ExNavyPilot]

I did a quick check on the National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors (CWSS) database and found zero Union soldiers by the name of John Barnwell in the artillery, and only two John G Barnwells in the Confederate service.

There was one listing for a Confederate John G. Barnwell who was commissioned a 1st LT and later promoted to Captain in the 1st Regmt, South Carolina Infantry (McCreary's) (1st Provisional Army.) The Fold3 website has an extensive file on John G. Barnwell, Co. H, 1st (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry. However, this officer served only in the infantry and wouldn't necessarily have needed an artillery manual.

There was also a listing on the CWSS for a John G. Barnwell who was a Major and Ordnance Officer. This one might be the right guy. He was an inspector of ordnance for the Dept covering SC, GA and FL.

Fold3 has a copy of General Order #79 from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Richmond VA, dated October 29, 1862, which describes the court martial of one Major John G. Barnwell, Corps of Artillery CSA, who was charged of abandoning two steamers loaded with arms and ammunition at New Smyrna, FL, March 11 1862, when the enemy approached. He was found "not guilty and was "honorably acquitted."

Fold3 also holds an post-war amnesty request filed in Athens, GA, Aug 14, 1865, from a John G. Barnwell, "late a Major, Corps of Artillery (Ordnance), CSA" from Beaufort, SC, and amnesty papers signed in Charleston, SC, in Jan '66., and has the same picture you posted.

This officer might have been the one who put his name in the artillery manual--there's no guarantee--but I think it's a good bet. I'll send you via your email address several files on this John G. Barnwell downloaded from Fold3.