What we have learned was Black Bart's physical description while in prison verses his Compiled Military Service Records were off by only one inch, everything else was the same including hair color and eye color.

He had been wounded during the Atlanta Campaign and not the Vicksburg Campaign.

The 116th Illinois did make the March with Sherman and he was noted as present for duty.

According to what he told Federal authorities he had been born in Norfolk County, England.

I believe the 1860 United States census had him living in eastern Iowa.

He nor his widow ever filed for a pension.