Wesley C. Leach

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and 6 siblings on their small farm at Rockdale, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted on 22 March 1862 at Yorktown, VA and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was ill in a hospital in Danville, VA with the measles in May and June.

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was seriously wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

His arm was amputated, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September, and he was sent home on furlough on 15 October 1862. He was again in a hospital in Danville from June into August 1863 with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farm worker living with his mother and siblings, at Brick Store/Statesville in Newton County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brothers Wiley C (1840-1862) and William were also in Company K. Wiley died of disease in July 1862 in Richmond, VA. William was with Wesley at Sharpsburg and was also wounded there.

c. 1844; Gwinnett County, AL

10/08/1919; Newton County, GA; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Covington, GA