Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  General John James Peck

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                                    PECK
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   PECK, GENERAL JOHN JAMES, first acquired distinction in command of a
   brigade on the Peninsula in 1862. He fought gallantly at Fair Oaks. On
   the withdrawal of the Army of the Potomac from James River, he was
   sent with a division of troops to Suffolk, in southeast Virginia. He
   exercised the chief command of that department, and repulsed several
   bold attacks of the Confederates upon that important post. During his
   command there, Suffolk withstood a formidable siege by troops under
   General Longstreet and D. H. Hill. The region about Suffolk was very
   productive, and the Confederates desired very much to control so as to
   harvest the supplies for their commissariat.
   General Peck was a West Point graduate and won honors in the Mexican
   war. He was wounded in front of Suffolk in an Longstreet's lines.