Thomas Augustus Peavy

Going by Augustus, in 1860 he was a 29 year old farm worker (possibly on the David Atchison farm next door) at Warrenton in Warren County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 48th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was captured there.

He was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 14 October then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Farmville, VA by 1 January 1863 and returned to his company on 2 April 1863. He was with them to at least October 1864 and was captured in April 1865. He was sent to Bermuda Hundred, VA on 3 April and then to Washington, DC on 6 April, where he took an oath of allegiance to the United States.

By 1870 he was a farmer in Warren County, but in 1880 was a carpenter there.

His service from Henderson,1 who has his birth in 1827, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as Thomas A. Peevey, Peevy, or Peavy. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as A. Peavy, missing in action. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, most often as Augustus Peavy or Peavey.

He married Seletha M. Hendrick (1828-) in October 1855 and they had 6 sons.

c. 1831 in GA