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He is described as; 21 years of age; height 5"8"; fair complexion; blue
eyes; light hair; farmer. Leonard appears on the casualties list for
Walthall's Brigade during the operations before Murfreeboro,Tennessee
(28 December 1862 till 4 January 1863) as having been wounded in the
hip and knee in a cornfield near Shelbyville, Tennessee. He was sent to
Rome Georgia where he was discharged on 11 April 1863 by Dr.
Pynchon. It was the opinion of the doctor Leonard would never be fit
for service agian. Leonard then enlisted in in Company E. of the 3rd
Mississippi Cavalry. He next appears on the Prisoner of War Rolls in
Captain W.E. Meek's Company. This Company was surrendered by Lt.
General Richard Taylor on 4 May 1865 at Citronelle, Alabama to Major
General Canby U.S.
contributed by great grandson Billy Deen
(note the fiddle and the knife)
