George Franklin Peckham Collection C Co. Wisconsin Civil War Memoirs 1906, 1910
Notes: My great grandfather George Franklin PECKHAM was born 11 Apr 1843 in Birdsell, Allengany, New York, he was the s/o William Augustus Franklin PECKHAM and Lydia M. CHAPIN. They moved to Aztalan, Jefferson, Wisconsin when he was very young – He was mustered into the State Service 26 September 1861, on the 27th of September 1861 he was mustered into the U.S. Service to serve 3 years or more. [during the war] He entered at Madison, Wisconsin in Company “C” 11th Wisconsin infantry, second brigade first division 13 corps. He served as a Wagoner – engaged in the battle at Peach Orchard, Cash Creek, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Jackson and Mobile. He was discharged 2 Sep 1865 at Mobil Atlanta. He settled in O’Brien county and October 1879 at Sanborn Iowa. He was a member of Farragut Post No. 25 G.A.R. Department of Nebraska. He married after he came home from the war – on 7 Feb 1866 at Aztalan, Jefferson, Wisconsin TO his ‘childhood school mate” Emily Rosella Lyons. My great grandfather George Franklin Peckham died 30 June 1914 at Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
Submitter: Wilma Fleming Haynes
Brian Brown, author of In the Footsteps of the Blue and Gray: A Civil War Research Handbook kindly sends the following information: On the 1860 census of Jefferson County, Wis., Town of Milford, p. 394 I find the following:
J. B. Lillian farmer age 40 born NY
Lyndsette Lillian age 36 born NY
George Peckham age 17 born NY
Byron Peckham age 7 Wis
W.A. (male) Peckham age 4 born Wis.
Annie C. Peckham age 2 born Wis.
It appears that George’s father has probably died and his mother has remarried. George enlisted in C, 11 Wis. Infantry on 9/24/61 as a wagoner (i.e. a wagon driver) from Milford, Wis. He served until discharged on Sept. 4, 1865.