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James Harvey “Jeff” Peyton

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James Harvey “Jeff” Peyton

Birth
Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA
Death
21 Feb 1924 (aged 84)
Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA
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Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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He was the son of John Milton Peyton and Jane Hannah Donnell. He married Mary Allen Sanders on 21 March 1860 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He had military service during the Civil War, when he enlisted in October 1861 as a confederate. From November 1861 he was at Camp Trousdale for four months. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in Brown's Bridgade, Company E, 45th Tennessee Infantry. His company then fought the siege at Vicksburg, Mississippi. His company moved from Vicksburg to Mobile, to Montgomery, to Atlanta, to Knoxville, to Murfreesboro, then falling back to Tullahoma, where he was captured. As a prisoner, he was carried to Nashville and put in the penitentiary for one week, to Louisville, and later to Sandusky, Ohio. Once released, he wrote of his trip home in 1865, "I lived on boiled eggs....and had a nickel when I got as far as Nashville. When I got back home I took up farming on a very small scale. Had neither horse or plow"He was discharged in 1865 at Johnson's Island.
He was the son of John Milton Peyton and Jane Hannah Donnell. He married Mary Allen Sanders on 21 March 1860 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He had military service during the Civil War, when he enlisted in October 1861 as a confederate. From November 1861 he was at Camp Trousdale for four months. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in Brown's Bridgade, Company E, 45th Tennessee Infantry. His company then fought the siege at Vicksburg, Mississippi. His company moved from Vicksburg to Mobile, to Montgomery, to Atlanta, to Knoxville, to Murfreesboro, then falling back to Tullahoma, where he was captured. As a prisoner, he was carried to Nashville and put in the penitentiary for one week, to Louisville, and later to Sandusky, Ohio. Once released, he wrote of his trip home in 1865, "I lived on boiled eggs....and had a nickel when I got as far as Nashville. When I got back home I took up farming on a very small scale. Had neither horse or plow"He was discharged in 1865 at Johnson's Island.

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J. H. Peyton
Aug 29, 1839
Feb 21, 1924

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