LEONARD CURTIS BULLIS -- 16th INFANTRY and 16th CAVALRY16th INFANTRY AND 16th CAVALRY - An article in the PlattsburghSentinel of April 27, 1917, documents the events leading up to thedeparture companies of the 16th Infantry from Clinton County to jointheir regiment in Albany where it organized. The article also mentionsthe names of all the men from the county who were in the regimentbetween May 1861 and May 1863. You can read the article at:[http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88075736/1917-04-27/ed-1/seq-2/](https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88075736/1917-04-27/ed-1/seq-2/)One of the men mentioned in the article is Leonard Curtis Bullis, theson of Charles Bullis and Rachel Brayman. At the time of his enlistment,he was living in Saranac, where he was born, and working as a bloomer.Leonard was one of the men of the second recruitment for the 16thwhich happened after the first Battle of Bull Run. He signed up to servefor two years and during that time he survived the Seven Days' Battleson the Virginia Peninsula, the battles at Crampton's Gap and Antietam,Fredericksburg and the Battle of Marye's Heights and Salem Church. WhileLeonard was with the 16th Infantry, the regiments suffered 480casualties -- 135 killed in action.When he was discharged in Albany in May 1863 and returned home. In 1864,he married his first wife, Josephina, and started a family. In September1864, for a county bounty of \$800, Leonard enlisted again and went towar with the 16th Cavalry. The regiment was in northern Virginia atthe time and for the next few months, he was in Mosby's Confederacy.Leonard mustered out at Washington, DC, at the end of May, in 1865. Hecontinued his work in the mining industry in Clinton County and, about1880, got an opportunity to become a mining superintendent in Rock, MI,near the Mississippi River, where the family stayed for a few years.When they returned to New York, it was to Syracuse, where he died ofcholera at age 46 in 1877. His second wife, Elizabeth Jeal, who was bornin England, applied for a Widows Pension and received it until 1912 whenshe died. Their son, George, died of a heart ailment in 1933, at aboutthe same age as his father.
