Leach, Calvin, 1843-1864.

Calvin Leach was the oldest of the eight children of D.A. and Rebecca Leach of Scottish descent, from Montgomery County, N.C. He was a church clerk at Walnut Grove before he joined Company B of the First North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, in September 1861. He died in Richmond in 1864.

From the guide to the Calvin Leach Diary and Letters, 1861-1867, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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