Lewis M. Peck

     MAJ. GEN. L.M. PECK
      WAR VETERAN, DIES
 Fought in 18 Battles in Civil
  War  Wounded Twice  Horses
  Shot Under Him.
 Maj. Gen. Lewis Mead Peck, 86
years old, a veteran of the Civil War
who fought in the Army of the
Potomac, the Army of the Gulf and
the Army of the Shenandoah, died this
morning of the ailments of old age,
at his residence, 515 Clinton ave. His
funeral services will be held on
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
in the lecture room of the First Pres-
byterian Church, Henry st. near Clark
st., the pastor, the Rev. Dr. L. Mason
Clarke, officiating and the interment
will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Gen. Peck was one of the oldest mem-
bers of the First Presbyterian Church,
having joined the congregation when
he came to Brooklyn to live nearly
seventy years ago. He is survived by
his wife, who was Emily Seymour
Jones, and a daughter, Miss Emily
Seymour Peck.
 General Peck was born in Connecti-
cut, on September 10, 1832, the son of
Obadiah and Lizetta Peck. He was
mustered into the Union Army almost
immediately after the outbreak of the
Civil War, as a captain in the 67th New
York Inf., on June 24, 1861, after he
had been engaged during May and
June in forming Co. K of Beecher's
First Long Island Volunteers. In the
four and a half years that he served
in the army he won rapid promotion
for bravery in battle. He fought in
eighteen battles and as many separate
engagements, and two sieges, was
wounded once severely and once
slightly, and had two horses killed
under him in the fighting. He was
promoted to lieutenant colonel of the
173d N. Y. Inf., on October 11, 1862,
and colonel on March 16, 1865, "for
gallant and meritorious service during
the war," and on the same date was
made a major general of volunteers
"for gallant and meritorious conduct at
the battle of Cedar Creek, Va.," on Oc-
tober 19, 1864. He was honorably mus-
tered out from the service on October
18, 1865. His regiment, which was dis-
banded at David's Island, N. Y., on
that date numbered only 400 men, hav-
ing had more than 600 casualties in
three years of service, with a loss of
nearly all its original field and line
officers. 
 On the files of the War Department
in Washington, D. C., in Gen. Sheri-
dan's own handwriting, is the follow-
ing indorsement of Gen. Peck's service:
  "The services rendered the Govern-
ment by Gen. Peck during the time he
served under my command entitles
him to the brevet of major general of
volunteers, and I request that that
honor be conferred upon him.
 "P. H. SHERIDAN, Maj. Gen., U.S.A."