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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas W. Leonard

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg, and was discharged for disability in Washington, DC on 29 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 1001 [AotW citation 30180]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 288 [AotW citation 30181]

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