Need to verify ---- Following from Ancestry.com ---- http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&indiv=try&db=civilwar_histdatasys&h=669412 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 Name: John M Pelton Residence: Pennsylvania Age at enlistment: 25 Enlistment Date: 16 Sep 1864 Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieutenant State Served: Pennsylvania Was Wounded?: Yes Survived the War?: No Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company C, Pennsylvania 211th Infantry Regiment on 16 Sep 1864. Mustered out on 14 Apr 1865 at City Point, VA.Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 12 Apr 1865. Birth Date: abt 1839 Sources: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War Source Information: Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the . Copyright 1997-2009 Historical Data Systems, Inc. PO Box 35 Duxbury, MA 02331. Description: This database is a compilation of military records (including state rosters, pension records, and regimental histories) of individual soldiers who served in the United States Civil War. ------------------------------------------------------------------- End Ancestry.com information ------------------------------------------------------------------ Begin Insert ---- http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/jeremiah-m-pelton/genealogy-of-the-pelton-family-in-america--being-a-record-of-the-descendants-of-tle/page-34-genealogy-of-the-pelton-family-in-america--being-a-record-of-the-descendants-of-tle.shtml VI John McDowell, born at Farmer's Valley, Pa., Feb. 7, 1839; grew up at home a general favorite, and at the breaking out of the war of the Great Rebellion, joined the Union Army as a member of Co. H, 58th Regt. of Penn Vols., serving with honor until the latter part of 1863, when he was mustered out that he might be mustered in again as second lieutenant of his company. As the company had not men enough to en- title it to two lieutenants, he was ordered home as a recruiting officer, until the company could be filled up. In 1864, Capt. Cowles having been authorized to raise a company, Mr. Pelton was one of the first to enlist in it, and on its organization received a commission as the second lieutenant. He served with honor therein until on the death of his first lieutenant he was pro- moted to the first lieutenancy, after which he led his company in all the battles in which it was engaged, until in his last battle on the heights of Petersburg, Va., Apr. 2, 1865, where he fell, at about 11 a. m., wounded in the 578 American Pelton Genealogy. right shoulder by a case-shot. Taken that night 30 miles in an ambulance to the hospital at City Point, he there died Apr. 14, 1865. His body reached home at Farmer's Valley, Pa., Apr. 23d, and was there buried, Apr. 26, 1865, much regretted by all, a good soldier and a noble man. ------------------------------------------------------- End of insert From www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/58th/58thcoh.html John M. Pelton 1st Sergeant (Mustered in) October 5, 1861 Promoted from Sergeant to 1st Sergeant, December 11, 1861; discharged to accept promotion, August 21, 1863 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/211th/211thcoc.html John M. Pelton 1st Lt. (Date of Muster in) September 16, 1864 Commissioned 1st Lt., April 12, 1865, not mustered; died at City Point, Va., April 14, of wounds received at Petersburg, April 2, 1865 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------