Napoleon Bonaparte Hamrick was born around 1833 in North Carolina to William and Mary Hamrick. His father was a farmer. The family moved to Van Buren County, Tennessee, around 1844, and Napoleon attended school there. He enlisted in the Confederacy army on May 20, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company I of the 16^th Tennessee Infantry. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Murfreesboro on December 31, 1862, and Union forces captured him on January 9, 1863. He spent the ensuing weeks imprisoned in Fort Delaware, and he was exchanged on February 11, 1863. He spent the next few months in a Confederate hospital, and he rejoined his regiment in August 1863. He probably died in 1864.

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