Leonard Dalton

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer living next door to his parents and siblings and near his father-in-law at Hollingsworth in Banks County, GA. He enlisted at Homer in Banks County on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry.

He was severely wounded in the thigh, his femur broken in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US Army Sixth Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 24 October and furloughed home on 12 November 1862. He returned to duty and was captured at Greenville, SC on 24 May 1865 and paroled.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer in Hollingsworth, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda J Jordan (1840-) and they had 11 children between 1858 and 1880.

c. 1833 in GA

06/04/1882; Banks County, GA; burial in Jordan Cemetery, Banks County, GA