Frank Manuel Leatherman

In 1860 he was a 20 year old planter on his widowed mother's place in Wilkinson County, MS. He enlisted at Woodville, MS on 21 April 1861 and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

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

He was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA but back with his Company by November 1862. He was appointed 4th Corporal by October 1863 and was 2nd Corporal when he was wounded again, by a gunshot to his head at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He was on furlough to 28 September 1864, and afterward listed as absent without leave to February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

By 1870 he was again farming, with his uncle Robert Leatherman, at Woodville in Wilkinson County, but by 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in St. Landry Parish, LA.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910; his birth year seen variously from 1836 to 1842.

c. 1840; Wilkinson County, MS

01/18/1922; Beauregard Parish, LA