Crawford County KS Archives Photo Tombstone.....Chapman, Leonard ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Theresa Lundberg TSLundberg@gmail.com July 26, 2011, 7:47 pm Cemetery: Highland Park Cemetery Also Known As: Hobson Cemetery 2025 S. Broadway Pittsburg Crawford County Kansas USA Name: Leonard Chapman Date Of Photograph: July 5, 2011 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/crawford/photos/tombstones/highlandpark/chapman1970gph.jpg Image file size: 156 Kb 1 Mar 1837 - Jackson, Iowa 20 Oct 1925 - Girard, Crawford, Kansas Marriage: 25 Jul 1858 Schuyler, Illinois Spouse: Malinda Melissa Wilcox Parents: Thomas L Chapman, Jane E Points Private Company: C and A 1st Regiment, Missouri Engineers Civil War Union Organized February 17, 1864, by consolidation of Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West and 25th Regiment Missouri Infantry. Attached to Defences of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to August, 1864. Engineers Sherman's Army to July, 1865. Additional Comments: SERVICE.--Assigned to duty on line of Nashville & Western Railroad rebuilding road from Nashville to the Tennessee River February 18 to May 10, 1864; then on line of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad building Blockhouses, repairing and protecting road until August 15. Ordered to Join Army in the field and march to the Chattahoochie River, Georgia, August 15-25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. At Atlanta until November 15. March to the sea November 15-December 10. In charge of Pontoons, Army of the Tennessee. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 15-17. Lynch's Creek February 26-27. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24-April 10. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 3-7. Mustered out July 22, 1865. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/crawford/photos/tombstones/highlandpark/chapman1970gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb