Birth: March 14, 1831; Prince George’s County, Maryland
Death: July3, 1862 (age 31); Lumpkin, Georgia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-62
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Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1852)
Samuel Peach entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a junior in 1850 and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852. Peach was an active member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society as a student. After graduation he moved to Lumpkin, Georgia and set up a law practice after being admitted to the bar there.
When the war erupted, Peach was commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He died in Lumpkin on July 3, 1862 and was buried at East Side cemetery in Lumpkin.
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2013