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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Peachy Gilmer Lewis

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 2 sisters on their modest place at Ramah in Montgomery County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 2 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Lazarus filed a claim for his final pay of $140.92 in about February 1863, which was paid in November 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32728]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32729]

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