“Gibbson George Peck, son of Alvah and Dorthea (Hathaway) Peck, was born and raised in Jay, New York. In his adult years he also went by the names Gibbs, George G. and Guy. His recorded occupation was a farm laborer, a wheelwright, and a house painter. When the Civil War started, Gibbs enlisted into the 77th New York Volunteers, Company I, on October 1, 1861 at Keeseville, New York for a period of 3 years. At the time of his enlistment he was described as 5ft. 9in. in height with a light complexion, brown hair and black eyes. His unit left the state on November 28, 1861 and was assigned to the 3rd Brigade of Casey’s Division in the Army of the Potomac. During Gibbs’s service he spent most of his time in the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia suffering from exposure and chronic diarrhea. While in the hospital, he was assigned as a nurse on April 1, 1862.

Gibbs was said to have been sent to a hospital in New York or furloughed to go home about June 1862. By July of 1862 he was listed as a deserter from his unit. He was apprehended on June 18, 1863 in Albany, New York and confined at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor by order of the Provost Marshal General. He was then sent to Washington, D.C. and reassigned to Company G of the 1st Connecticut Artillery on July 34d near Fort Richardson, Virginia. He was again listed as a deserter of his unit while at Fort Bernard, Virginia. After the war, George Gibbs married Clarinda Call in Jay, New York about 1864. She was the daughter of Joseph Jr. and Mary Ann (Peck) Call. George and his wife moved from Jay to the state of Vermont after 1875 to raise their family. George applied for a pension from the government about 1885 stating that he was unable to work or support himself because of chronic diarrhea contracted while in the military, and for a bayonet wound to the abdomen that he said he had received during a skirmish near Fort Smith in Lincoln, Virginia in June of 1862. The pension bureau rejected his claim based on the fact that he had never served a day of duty, and that he was listed as a deserter from his unit and was never honorably discharged. George and his family moved to the state of New Hampshire about 1886 and was recorded in the towns of Enfield, Lebanon and finally Claremont Junction where he died on July 3, 1907 from cancer of the prostate and penis. His wife Clarinda died at Springfield, Vermont on February 20, 1926.”96

Rank in and out: private.277

He was also listed as George G. Peck by National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors system as a private in Co. F, 91 NY Infantry. Some of these records look questionable to me -- they present Pecks I’ve never seen before.277