24-year old Doctor Bothwell Leonard enlisted at Vienna, Georgia on 4 March 1862 in Co. C (Dooly Volunteers), 45th Georgia Infantry. Leonard's military service record shows that except for a single furlough taken in June 1864 he was present for duty at every engagement of his regiment as part of R.E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. These engagements included: Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg. Together with eight other enlisted men from Company C, 45th Georgia, 3rd Sergeant D.B. Leonard was paroled after the surrender of Lee's army on 9 April 1865 and returned home to Dooly County. Leonard lived there until his death in 1905. The period photograph shows the McLean House near Appomattox, Virginia, the site of Lee's surrender.