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W.S. Leslie
(1841 - 1913)
Home State: Vermont
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Vermont Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker on the Elkanah W Grout place at Plymouth, in Windsor County, VT. He enlisted at Ludlow, VT on 18 May 1861 and mustered in Burlington as a Private in Company I, 2nd Vermont Infantry on 20 June.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was probably wounded there by a bullet to his left chest which lodged above his heart.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army hospital at 65th & Vine Streets in Philadelphia on 18 October and was discharged for disability there on 11 February 1863.
After the War
He returned to Vermont but by 1870 was farming near his in-laws at Barrett in Marshall County, KS. He was still farming in Marshall County to at least 1880 but by 1900 was a farmer at Osawatomie in Miami County. He retired there by 1910.
References & notes
His service from Peck1 with details from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Warren S. Lesslie. His presence at Antietam from his obituary in the Osawatomie Graphic-News of 18 December 1913. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of an excellent pre-war photograph. His picture here from a photograph contributed to the FamilySearch database by Frances Price. Thanks to John Banks for the nudge to look into Private Leslie.
He married Alice D. Newman (1847-1914) in October 1866 in Woodstock, VT and they had a daughter Eva (1867-1937).
Birth
12/14/1841; Plymouth, VT
Death
12/16/1913; Miami County, KS; burial in Elmdale Cemetery, Osawatomie, KS
1 Peck, Theodore S., Adjutant General, and The Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66, Montpelier: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, p. 61 [AotW citation 31604]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31605]