Peach, Samuel Higgins Hamilton

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Class of 1852
    Full name
    Samuel Higgins Hamilton Peach
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Siblings
    6
    Family
    Samuel Peach (father), Caroline Hamilton Peach (mother), John Peach (brother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    Slaveholder
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Samuel Hamilton Peach (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    Samuel Peach was born in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on March 14, 1831. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a junior in 1850 and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852. Peach was an active member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society as a student. After graduation he moved to Lumpkin, Georgia and set up a law practice after being admitted to the bar there.

    When the war erupted, Peach was commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He died in Lumpkin on July 3, 1862.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Samuel Hamilton Peach,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/p/ed_peachS.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Peach, Samuel Higgins Hamilton," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6367.