William H. Leonard

In 1860 he was a 25 year old physician in East Worcester, Otsego County, NY. He enrolled there on 28 September 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 51st New York Infantry on 9 October. He was detailed as acting Assistant Surgeon almost immediately, and formally commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the regiment on 28 March 1862.

He was with his regiment in Maryland and treated wounded soldiers during and after the Battle of Antietam at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD.

He was promoted to Surgeon on 7 November (to date from 9 October) 1862. He was discharged on 15 August 1863.

He returned to Worcester in 1863 and practiced medicine there to at least 1880.

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, the New York State Census of 1865, and the catalog of graduates in F.C. Waite's First Medical College in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862 (1949). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of details from his obituary in the Worcester Times of 7 March 1901.

He married Mary Ann Smith (1838-1872) in 1858 and they had 2 children. He married again, Eva M Birdsall (1856-1875) and they had a son Frederick. He married, thirdly, Adelia McClumpha (1837-1903) in November 1875.

06/27/1835; Roxbury, NY

03/06/1901; Worcester, NY; burial in Maple Grove Cemetery, Worcester, NY