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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bcuda, post: 5543451, member: 105389&quot;]I love to do Family research, I have done a few stories on some of my Ancestors.</p><p>This is the first one I ever did.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241101[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Decided I owed it to my Great Great Uncle John Martin Pealer to write a little about Him. So here goes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jan.donavant?__cft__[0]=AZU05Tg1xevLomyv2AJcW-qqxPQ6ZBy9iGeQzIfSIGw3pt48b6sMoG1Q4uNX2tgxSN9MyaTnFijzb4e-MT6pND-RJx07knEk6lEX8myIdTX4PypcNtGZyK0HM-HcqJTrFNe0u4J8QIrdPOh-TWIsTAsb0JQD_zs-9GqdVVY_e7Eifg&amp;__tn__=-]K-y-R" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.facebook.com/jan.donavant?__cft__[0]=AZU05Tg1xevLomyv2AJcW-qqxPQ6ZBy9iGeQzIfSIGw3pt48b6sMoG1Q4uNX2tgxSN9MyaTnFijzb4e-MT6pND-RJx07knEk6lEX8myIdTX4PypcNtGZyK0HM-HcqJTrFNe0u4J8QIrdPOh-TWIsTAsb0JQD_zs-9GqdVVY_e7Eifg&amp;__tn__=-]K-y-R" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">John Martin Pealer</span></a></p><p>And His Story</p><p>John Martin&#039;s parents John Frederick and Margaret Pealer were immigrants that came form Germany in the fall of 1838 looking for a better life. They landed in New York and traveled to Worthington Township Richland Co. Ohio. With three small children a few clothes and $1.20 in money, they managed to secure the use of a stable until they found better quarters to live in. It was here that John Martin was born and raised with 7 brothers, all helping their Father work the farm fields until they could buy land of their own to farm.</p><p>In 1861 the Civil War broke out (Deadliest war in American history) between the northern states loyal to the union and the southern states that had seceded from the union. John Martin joined the 64th Ohio Infantry Volunteer Regiment on October 19th 1861 for 3 years to fight for the union. (A corporal from the 64th wrote in his Diary We are now fighting to destroy the cause of these dangerous diseases, which is slavery and the slave power. There were others who joined up for the adventure with their friends). I would think this would have been the reason John Martin joined at the young age of 20 years. Sadly John Martin was shot in the Right lung at the battle of Chickamauga. He died In a Nashville hospital on October 26 1863 at the age of 22 years. He is buried at the Nashville National Cemetery plot E,154. Picture of His headstone is below.</p><p>John Martin&#039;s detailed service and battles are as follows:</p><p>1861: Moved to Louisville, Ky., December 14; thence to Bardstown, Ky., December 25. Duty at Danville and Ball&#039;s Gap, Ky., January and February 1862.</p><p>1862: March to Munfordville, thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 7-March 13, and to Savannah, Tenn., March 29-April 6.</p><p>1862: Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7.</p><p>1862: Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.</p><p>1862: Pursuit to Booneville June 1–12. Duty along Memphis &amp; Charleston Railroad until August.</p><p>1862: March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15. Bardstown, Ky., October 3. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve).</p><p>1862: March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Nolensville December 27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863.</p><p>1863: Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Reconnaissance to Nolensville and Versailles January 13–15. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16.</p><p>1863: Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga September 7. Lookout Valley September 7–8. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon&#039;s Mills September 11–13. Near Lafayette September 14. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20.</p><p>Thank you for your sacrifice, John Martin Pealer may you rest in peace.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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