Leander Jenkins

He enlisted at age 18 in Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 4 August 1862 and mustered as Private.

While on the Maryland Campaign, he became ill and was taken to a hospital in Frederick, MD just before the battle of Antietam.

He was also treated in Philadelphia, PA. He transferred to the Invalid (Veteran Reserve) Corps on 15 November 1863, and was discharged 24 August 1865.

By 1872 he was a clerk in Newark. He worked in the New York Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1880 - 1899, when he retired with a pension.

Basic information from the D Society1. His occupation from Newark City Directories of 1872, 1874. His rail service from a 1917 leaflet by the railroad. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1844; Newark, NJ

04/07/1917; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, NJ