Nathan A. Leonard

Nathan A. Leonard was the First Drum Major. He was from Company B, and was discharged at Corinth on July 11. 1862.

His daughter now resides at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He had the early instruction of the Musicians of the Regiment and did very well, considering the insubordinate characters of the young devils over whom he had control. He died several years since. One of the "youngsters" above named, John S. Bosworth, is now in the office of the Adjutant General at Washington, and another, Major L. S. Tyler, prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, and formerly in Company H, is the compiler of this history of the Regiment.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 47-8