David Leonard

Age 21, he enlisted at Holmesville on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was absent in hospitals and on furlough to 15 January 1863, when he returned to duty. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 but was back with his Company by August 1863. He was captured on 24 May 1864 near Hanover Junction, VA and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he stated he "does not think the South in the right" and requested to take an oath of allegiance and be sent to Philadelphia, PA. Instead, he was transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY on 9 July; where said he had been conscripted in March 1862 and wanted to become a "loyal citizen." He was released on 29 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Alexander J. Tarbutton. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1840 in MS