William A. Leibe

In 1860 he was a 14 year old clerk in his father's store living with his parents and siblings, including 16 year old brother Charles in Newark, NJ. Giving his age as 17, he enlisted on 14 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 2nd New Jersey Infantry on 30 May 1861.

He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain by a bullet which

entered one inch below and to the right of the umbilicus, and passed out an inch and a half to the left of the spine, below the ribs.

He was treated at a field hospital nearby in Burkittsville, MD where "the lad was unusually quiet and tractable, this assisting not a little in his ultimate recovery." His wounds had closed by the end of the year and he was discharged at the Convalescent Camp in Alexandria, VA on 27 May 1863.

He was granted an invalid veteran's pension on 17 September 1869.

His service from the State of New Jersey.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 quoted above. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Charles was also a Private in Company K (later A) of the 2nd New Jersey.

c. 1846 in GERMANY

03/1869; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, NJ