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Leonard case Alden.
Second Lieutenant 55th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 12, 1863; died at Hilton head, S. C., October 5, 1863, of disease contracted in the service.
Leonard case Alden was born, December 22, 1839, in the city of Boston,—the son of William Vinton Alden and of Nancy Adams (Vinton) Alden.
His autobiography in the Class-Book, after stating these facts, continues as follows:—
On my father's side I am descended from John Alden, one of the passengers in the Ma
After a great struggle he sent in his resignation, and set out for the North on the 2d of October; but too late.
At Hilton Head he was just too late for the steamer for New York, and could only be taken to the army hospital, where he died October 5, 1863.
His body, obtained by his brother with the greatest difficulty, and only after an appeal to the President himself, was brought home on the steamer Arago; his classmate, E. P. Gould, coming North by the same boat.
Gould, with a few other