Henry E. Peyton enlisted as a lieutenant colonel on July 21, 1861, serving as a staff oficer to General Beauregard from 1861 to 1862. He was appointed Major and Assistant Adjutant General on May 10, 1862. He served as major and Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General to Robert E. Lee from Oct. 6, 1862 through Sept. 20, 1864, when he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, still serving as Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General to Lee. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.
He lived in a variety of places after the war, including Texas, Missouri, Baltimore, and Virginia. He died indigent on September 14, 1900 in St. Louis, Missouri and was buried in an unknown pauper's grave.
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