enlisted Company I, 16th Connecticut Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, in the Battle of Antietam, mustered out as corporal August 24, 1862
Er ist verheiratet mit Ezrena Aurelia Greenfield.
Sie haben geheiratet am 7. November 1861 in Old Lyme, New London County, CT probably, er war 20 Jahre alt.
1. From an email letter August 21, 2000 from Priscilla Davis:
"I just found your site and would like to tell you about my connection. I have many letters written between James and his wife,
Ezrena Aurelia Greenfield Peckham, better known as Katie. James was in the Battle of Antietam and died of illness in November
of 1862.
I also have some letters written by his brothers, George and Robert, and his sister, Mary Elizabeth, who married Katie's cousin,
Richard Greenfield. I have one letter from his mother, Frances.
I knew Katie when I was a young child (that tells you how old I am!) and spent my summers on the Greenfield farm until my
mother and her brother and sister sold it. Aunt Katie died at my house, where she spent her winters. I have been sort of looking
for the Peckham genealogy even though I have no direct link with it but, because of the letters, I feel very close to them.
This doesn't add anything to your information, but his letters show he was a very homesick young man. He and Katie were
married only about a year and he died in 1862, when he was about 21 years old. His letters telling why he was going to enlist
made me feel very sorry for them and when Katie was an old lady she used to talk about her Jamie, who died so young."
James Wallace Peckham | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ezrena Aurelia Greenfield |