Peete was a schoolteacher in Charlotte County, VA in 1850 after he graduated from R-MC. He then studied medicine from 1850-1851 at the University of Virginia, from which he was expelled in June 1851 for leaving the room during exams, the first honor trial at UVA. Peete would later be granted his M.D.from the University of Louisville, and he was a physician in Charlotte County, VA in 1860.
He was commissioned as surgeon of the 12th North Carolina Infantry on May 23, 1862. He resigned due to disability on March 25, 1864.
After the war, he resided in Warren County, NC where in 1866 he was performing marriages as a Justice of the Peace in addition to practicing medicine. He was still practicing in 1870 but had stopped by 1875 when he moved to the town of Warrenton, NC.
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