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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Henry Peel

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farm hand living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 13 slaves on their plantation at Wetumpka in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Elisha Woodard Peel/Peelle (1812-1900) filed a claim for his son's final pay of $125.23 in June 1863 which was approved in March 1865; probably never actually paid.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

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 32834]

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 32835]

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