Daniel Leasure

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Daniel Leasure (March 18, 1819 - October 10, 1886) was a United States colonel who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Military service 3 Post-war career 4 Memorial 5 References

[edit] Early Life

Leasure was born in 1819 near Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He attended Greersburg Academy in nearby Darlington in Beaver County from 1838 to 1840. Afterwards, he spent time in medical school in Pittsburgh.

[edit] Military service

Leasure held the rank of colonel in the IX Corps through most of the Civil War. He participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Chantilly, Fredericksburg, and the Siege of Vicksburg.

[edit] Post-war career

When the war ended, Leasure returned to Pennsylvania where he practiced medicine in the borough of Darlington. While in Darlington, Leasure became a trustee of Greersburg Academy where he was educated nearly thirty years before. He later served in the the Pennsylvania legislature, and afterwards, moved to New Castle, Pennsylvania. Leasure then moved to the city of St. Paul, Minnesota in 1878, where he died eight years later on the tenth of October, 1886. His body was returned to Pennsylvania, and was buried in New Castle.

[edit] Memorial

The borough of Darlington erected a monument the year following Leasure's death. The monument was placed across from the Greersburg Academy school building where Leasure spent a considerable amount of time in his life. Other notable Civil War alumni to go through the academy were the abolitionist John Brown and John W. Geary.

[edit] References

• Cole, Wayne A., The Greersburg Academy and the Station House, Wayne A. Cole, 2003, ISBN 0-9727397-1-8.