Lorenzo Dow Leedy ( Feb. 22, 1816, Abington VA - Apr. --, 1862, Aberdeen MS) married (1) Sarah Garrett Bibb, Jan. 2, 1840, Madison County AL. His father-in-law was William Bibb (1783-1834), a relative of William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama. After she died on Apr. 20, 1851, Lorenzo married Margaret Muse, also said to be from Madison County AL. She appears on the 1860 census of Monroe County MS as M. A. Leedy, age 30, born AL. Evidently Mrs. Leedy remarried after the war, but I don't have that information.
After signing a petition to President Jefferson Davis supporting the nomination of Samuel J. Gholson as Brigadier General, Mar. 7, 1862, Lorenzo died at Aberdeen MS. He had been an officer of Aberdeen Masonic Lodge No. 32, and listed on the 1860 census as auctioneer. The family owned five slaves in 1850 and six in 1860. Lorenzo Dow Leedy, his wife Sarah and their oldest son are all buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Aberdeen MS.
After the war began, William B. Leedy (born 1846) returned to Madison County AL to live with his mother's family. According to Federal records, he was employed by the Quartermaster Department at Huntsville AL during the Federal occupation of that city. When Huntsville returned to Confederate control during Hood's Tennessee Campaign, Leedy joined a cavalry company organized by Thomas B. Jordan as 3rd Co. "I", Roddey's 4th Alabama Cavalry, known as the "Jordan Light Guards." Sgt. Leedy was captured at Indian Creek AL, Dec. 23, 1864, along with about fifty other Confederates from Roddey's command. Prisoner-of-war records list him as a Federal deserter, tried in Nashville TN, Feb. 14, 1865. He was released on special exchange near City Point VA the following month, as noted on Doc. 195 in General Forrest's military service file.