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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John McPeake

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 82nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 11 December and to Sergeant on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to "the integuments [skin] of the forehead" and captured in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled, date not given. He was treated at a regimental hospital and sent on the hospital at Camp Parole in Annapolis, MD on 21 November 1862. He was discharged there for disability on 23 February 1863.

References & notes

Basic service information from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 30, p. 409 [AotW citation 8451]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 78 [AotW citation 31171]

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