Colonel Peyton H. Colquitt (CSA)

Civil War Officer.

"Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXVZ-8FM : 4 November 2017), Peyton H. Colquitt and Julia F. Hurt, 24 Oct 1861; citing Marriage, Muscogee, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 401,846. died in the Battle of Chickamauga

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Peyton dropped out of West Point would become editor of the Columbus Sentinel and a state senator from 1857-58

During the Civil War, he became the commander of Gist's Brigade. On September 20, 1863, during the Battle of Chickmauga, he was mortally wounded. He died two days later. He was one of four Confederate Army commanders killed at Chickamauga. A large monument now marks the place where he fell.

He was the son of United States Representative Walter T. Colquitt, and the brother of Brigadier General Alfred Holt Colquitt, who was a United States Senator and Georgia governor. In his book "Reminiscences Of The Civil War," Major General John B. Gordon referred to Colquitt as a "brilliant leader."

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-CR8D : 13 December 2015), Peyton H. Colquitt, 1863; Burial, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States of America, Linwood Cemetery; citing record ID 8092571, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Residence: Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States - 1850
• Residence: Cornwall, Orange, New York, United States - 1850
• Residence: Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States - 1860
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