Danville Leadbetter
| Danville Leadbetter | |
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Danville Leadbetter
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| Born |
August 26, 1811 Leeds, Maine |
| Died | September 26, 1866 (aged 55) Clifton, Canada |
| Buried | Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America Confederate States of America
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| Service/ |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1836–57 (USA) 1861–65 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 Captain (USA) Brigadier General (CSA)
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| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Danville Leadbetter (August 26, 1811 – September 26, 1866) was a career U.S. Army officer and later he served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
A trained engineer, Leadbetter supervised the construction of forts before and during the war, and is noted for his controversial involvement in the November 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders in eastern Tennessee. After the conflict he left the United States and lived out the remainder of his life on foreign soil.
Danville Leadbetter was born in Leeds, Maine. He attended the United States Military Academy in West Point in July 1832, and graduated four years later, standing third out of 49 cadets. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery on July 1, 1836. Leadbetter transferred to the Army Engineers on November 1, but as a brevet second lieutenant to rank from July 1. He then returned to the 1st Artillery on December 31, and went back and forth between the two regiments and ranks throughout 1837. Leadbetter was promoted to first lieutenant on July 7, 1838, then assigned to a joint commission of army and navy officers to identify defense sites along the Pacific Coast. Leadbetter was promoted to captain on October 16, 1852 and spent 1853–57 at Mobile, Alabama, working on the construction and/or repair of the city's harbor forts.
Leadbetter resigned from the U.S. Army on the last day of 1857 and settled in Alabama. He became the state's chief engineer and supervised the construction of the Sand Island Lighthouse.
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