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- Served in the Civil War, Co. C, Captain Leonard O. Fitzgerald, 21st Regiment, mustered into U. S. Military Service September 4, 1862. Enlisted July 24, 1862, died October 28, 1862, Sergeant.
One thousand and eight officers and enlisted men, commanded by Col. Ambrose A. Stevens, left Ionia, Michigan with orders to report in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was immediately pushed forward to join General Don Carlos Buell's forces in Kentucky. On the 8th of October, as part of General Phillip H. Sheridan's division, they were engaged in the battle of Perryville, where twenty-seven men were killed, wounded and missing. Along with other troops of General William S. Rosecrans' command, then marched forward to Nashville, Tennessee where they arrived November 10, 1862.
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