John Newton
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United States Army general and engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Newton was a career officer in the United States Army, a Union general in the American Civil War, and Chief of the Corps of Engineers. Early life Newton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, a city his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He ranked second in the United States Military Academy class of 1842 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the Military Academy and constructed fortifications along the Atlantic coast and Great Lakes . He was a member of a special Gulf Coast defense board and Chief Engineer, Utah Expedition .
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