Name: PETERS, SILAS B.
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 March 1862 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama
Service History:  Absent Sick: Winchester 1862/05/25, Cross Keys 1862/06/08, Cold Harbor 1862/06/27, Malvern Hill 1862/07/02, Darbytown 1864/10/07, Darbytown Road 1864/10/13, Williamsburg Road 1864/10/27;Present at: Cedar Mountain 1862/08/09, Hazel River 1862/08/23, Manassas Junction 1862/08/27, Manassas Plains 1862/08/28-30, Chantilly 1862/09/01, Harpers Ferry 1862/09/13, Sharpsburg 1862/09/17, Fredericksburg 1862/12/13, Suffolk 1863/05/03, Gettysburg 1863/07/02-03, Battle Mount 1863/07/24, Chickamauga 1863/09/19-20, Raccoon Mt. 1863/10/27, Lookout Valley 1863/10/28, Camel Station 1863/11/16, Knoxville 1864/11/20 & 29, Dandridge 1864/01/16; Absent Detail: Shepardstown 1862[1864]/09/19; Severely Wounded: Wilderness 1864/05/06, Absent Wounded: Spotsylvania, Virginia 1864/05/08 & 12;Absent Furlough: Cold Harbor 1864/06/03, Chester Station 1864/06/17, Deep Bottom 1864/08/14, Fussell's Mill 1864/08/16, Fort Gilmer 1864/09/29, Fort Harrison 1864/09/30
Date of Birth: abt 1836	Place of Birth: Georgia
Date of Death: September 1914	Place of Death: Geneva County, Alabama
Buried: Panther Creek Cemetery, Wicksburg, Geneva County, Alabama
Father: One family database lists him as a son of James Peters (b abt 1807 in Sampson County, North Carolina, son of John Peters and Zilpha Macklemore) and Rachel Ann Williford (b abt 1815 in North Carolina);  he is not listed in their household on the 1850 Randolph County, Georgia, Census, when he would have been about 14 years old.
Mother:
Spouse(s): (1) Catherine Martha Howell [widow of William Dooling], (2) Mary A. Waters
Children: By (1) Ella J., Anderson Kenny, Franklin Monroe
Occupation: Farmer
Residence(s): Newton, Dale County; Geneva County, Alabama
Other: Pension record card Geneva County; Alabama Pension number 2927 "He was a little, one-eyed man, by no means handsome, but had a considerable vein of waggish, dry humor in him."
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Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net