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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Leonard

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, he enlisted on 25 May 1861 at Natchez and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, by a gunshot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 14 March 1865. He was paroled on 1 May 1865 at Winchester, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29700]

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