Private Leander L. Howard (1843 - )
Enlisted from Oakland, Ohio on 14 April 1863. He was 20, single and working as a harness maker.
Wounded on 18 July 1863 at Fort Wagner.
Wounded on 20 February 1864 at Olustee, FL.
Mustered out on 20 August 1865 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Of possible note: there is a Leander L. Howard buried in New York who is the right age to have been his father. "He was an engineer on shipping vessels traveling the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean."
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More interesting: all 3 of this Leander L. Howard's children were born in ... Ohio.
DeleteHelpful RE: address if anyone goes further down this rabbit hole than me. A German paper in 1879 (thanks to translate.google.com) says:
Delete"Leander Howard who lives in no. 174 Cutter Street, lost fine papers. He asks the honest fiender to take him to his apartment."
Leander L. had passed away by then, but the son Leander E. Howard was still alive.
To go to the source, the newspaper is Westliche Blätter for the date of December 07, 1879.
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