Leonidas S. Sullivan

Birth Date

c1840

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Indiana resident and soldier. Greensboro, Indiana, native. Son of John W. Sullivan and Mary Ann Sullivan. Student in Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1850. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first sergeant and private from September 27, 1861, to May 18, 1863. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain from May 18, 1863, to April 19, 1864. Served in the 9th U.S. Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment as private and company sergeant.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Bartholomew County, Columbus, p. 300A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 116-17.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 22.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #1116953, Certificate #865421.

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