This is my first time to this message board. I have not read any of the messages posted, yet.

This is a new research project for me.

My ancestor (great great grandfather)
Adam Benjamin Newton was part of this regiment, according to his cemetery marker.

Adam Benjamin Newton
dob 27 March 1842 - Copiah County MS
dod 25 Jan 1915 - Lincoln County MS
PVT Co A Yergers Regt Miss CAV C.S.A
Burial - Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS