Leigh enlisted as a surgeon on March 16, 1862 and was commissioned into the 58th VA Infantry. He was detailed for much of this time to the 5th LA Infantry, to which he was formally transferred on June 15, 1862. In January 1864 Dr. Leigh was sent to a hospital in Raleigh, NC, where he was paroled on May 11, 1865.
He had graduated from New york medical college in 1856 and practiced medicine in Petersburg, VA after the war. Dr. Leigh died October 17, 1898 and is buried in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery.
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