John W. Peay, age 20. Private, Capt. Wm. L. Lyles' Company, 24th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted August 27, 1861 at West Point, Miss. by Capt. Lyles for the duration of the war, severely wounded in left leg at Murfreesboro, Tenn. early in the action in the wood near the Pike, December 31, 1862, sent to hospital, furloughed March 9, 1863 for 30 days, admitted 1st Mississippi CSA Hospital, Jackson, Miss. June 24, 1864, gunshot wound, returned to duty July 27, examined for furlough at Dalton, Georgia April 11, 1865 and granted 60 day furlough, "Disability - Phthisis pulmonalis secon stage great emuciation & debility six months, Town Tampaico, Miss., among " . . . divers companies and regiments (detached) of the Confederate States Army, commanded by Lieut. W. S. Bearden, surrendered at Citronelle, Ala., by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, to Maj. Gen., E. R. S. Canby, USA, May 4, 1865, and paroled at Meridian, Miss., May 17, resident of Oktibbeha County, Miss.
* This company subsequently became Company B, 24th Regiment Mississippi Infantry
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Wyatt Peay, age 22, Private, Capt. Wm. L. Lyles' Company, 24th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted August 24, 1861 at West Point, Miss., by Wm. L. Lyles for the war, died April 1/21, 1862, Bethel Tenn.
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi