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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John L. Peyton and Pauline Peyton. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Second lieutenant in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.), which consolidated into the 17th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.), from January 1862 to April 1862. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel for Hopkins County in 1863.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 18.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0305.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 958-959.

Citation

Peyton, Richard L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202594 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
James W. Wilkins, Otway Waddell, and J. M. Compton to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-15

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