It is my understanding that the Confederate dead from the Battle of Peachtree Creek fought July 20, 1864 were interred on the battlefield near where they fell by the Federal army. After the war, the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association was formed with the stated purpose of "...devising means to procure funds for the proper disinterment of our gallant dead, who were then lying in trenches for miles around this city ... to give these neglected heroes a Christian burial."

The ALMA was granted a parcel of land for the burial of these unknowns inside Oakland Cemetery adjacent to the area where Confederate dead from various Atlanta hospitals had been buried during the war. In the winter of 1868/1869, the ALMA supervised the removal of some 3,000 Confederate dead for "ten miles around and throughout the city" to the "unknown" section where they are watched over today by the Lion of Lucerne Memorial.

The site of the Battle of Peachtree Creek falls without a ten mile radius of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. It would be a reasonable assumption that the remains of your ancestor were recovered and reinterred after the war in Oakland's "Unknown" Confederate section. The section of the field where Loring's Division (Scott's Brigade and Featherston's Brigade) attacked is a heavily residential area with a small local park along the banks of Tanyard Branch (aka Early's Creek).

I don't know if the book is still in print, but let me recommend Dr. Robert E. Zaworski's "Headstones of Heroes: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" (Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky, 1998). This is the source of the information I have provided here.

Hugh Simmons