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Danville Leadbetter
Danville Leadbetter (August 26, 1811 – September 26, 1866) was a career U.S. Army officer and later he served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
A trained engineer, Leadbetter supervised the construction of forts before and during the war, and is noted for his controversial involvement in the November 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders in eastern Tennessee. Afterward the conflict he left the United States and lived out the remainder of his life on foreign soil.
==Early life and career==
Danville Leadbetter was born in Leeds, Maine. He attended the United States Military Academy in West Point in July 1832, and graduated four years later, standing third out of 49 cadets. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery on July 1, 1836. Leadbetter transferred to the Army Engineers on November 1, but as a brevet second lieutenant to rank from July 1. He then returned to the 1st Artillery on December 31, and went back and forth between the two regiments and ranks throughout 1837. Leadbetter was promoted to first lieutenant on July 7, 1838, and was promoted to captain on October 16, 1852.〔Eicher, p. 342.〕
Leadbetter spent 1853–57 at Mobile, Alabama, working on the construction and/or repair of the city's harbor forts.〔Warner, p. 176.〕 He resigned from the U.S. Army on the last day of 1857 and settled in Alabama. There he later became the state's chief engineer.〔
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