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(1844 - 1833)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 3 slaves on their farm near Mount Carmel in Henry County, GA. He enlisted at Camp Stephens in Griffin, GA on 9 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 27th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in the thigh and/or hips in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a US field hospital on the battlefield, admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD, on 10 October and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore the next day. He was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 13 October, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October, and furloughed home for 25 days on 2 or 10 November. He returned to duty in 1863.
He was wounded again, slightly, in battle at Olustee, FL on 21 February 1864 and more seriously, by a gunshot in the bowels at Cold Harbor, VA on 1 June 1864. He was admitted to the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on 3 June and furloughed for 30 days on 10 August 1864 with no later military record.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Indian Spring in Butts County, GA but by 1880 was a blacksmith back in Henry County. He was still suffering greatly from his wounds in 1889, when he filed for a disability pension. By 1900 he was farming at Locust Grove in Henry County, GA but in 1910 he was a laborer in a potato chip factory in Bibb County, GA. He'd finally retired, to Tampa in Hillsboro County, FL, by 1920 and lived with his daughter Alma (Richmond) and her husband there to at least 1930.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3, indexed under Aug J Peek. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 18 November 1862. He's also on the Patient List,2 as A.J. Peak. Personal details from family genealogists, his 1889 pension application, and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Elizabeth “Nannie” Thompson (1847-1926) in September 1865 and they had 10 children between 1866 and 1885.
Birth
06/22/1844; Newton County, GA
Death
02/08/1833; Hillsborough County, FL; burial in Bass United Methodist Heritage Church Cemetery, Macon, GA
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 35118]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #936 [AotW citation 35119]