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F. Leland
(1817 - 1867)
Home State: Massachusetts
Education: Brown University (A.B. 1838),
Harvard University Medical School, Class of 1842
Branch of Service: Medical
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 42 year old physician living in Packard's Hotel in Milford, MA. He enrolled in Boston on 12 October 1861 and mustered as Surgeon of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry on 15 October. He was detailed in charge of a hospital in Winchester in May 1862. He was slightly wounded at Cedar Mountain, VA on 9 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his regiment in Maryland and treated wounded soldiers on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and afterward.
The rest of the War
Then in camp at Harpers Ferry, VA, he tendered his resignation on 12 October due to disability and was discharged on 24 October 1862.
After the War
In 1865 he was again a physician in Milford, MA, then living in Lewis Fisher's Mansion House Hotel there. He died of "softening of the brain" in the McLean Asylum for the Insane in Somerville, MA on 5 October 1867, not quite 50 years old. He was unmarried.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His role at Antietam from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, his death record, the Historical Catalogue of Brown university, 1764-1934 (1935), the US Census of 1860, and the Massachusetts Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a photograph in the MOLLUS Massachusetts album.3
Birth
12/26/1817; Sherborn, MA
Death
10/05/1867; Somerville, MA; burial in South Sherborn Cemetery, Sherborn, MA
1 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 33101]
2 Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, p. 139 [AotW citation 33102]
3 US Army, Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)-Massachusetts Photograph Collection, Published 2009, <https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena>, Source page: Vol. 93, p. 4753 [AotW citation 33103]
