CAPT. LEONARD F. LUCADO
Was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on the 28th of August,
1832. The Lucado family has been settled in Virginia for three generations,
and the father of Leonard F., Edwin Lucado, was a soldier of
the war of 1812, a member of a Virginia regiment. The mother of
Capt. Lucado was Lucy Fredwell. His parents are now deceased.
December 23, 1860, Rev. G. W. Langhorne officiating, he married Belle
V. Pettigrew, who was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, on March
14, 1846. The children of Capt. Lucado are two sons, Garland F. and
Albert W., the former now taking the military course at the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington. Capt. Lucado entered the Confederate
States Army on April 24, 1861, in Company G, 11th Virginia Infantry.
He was commissioned captain of commissary department in the field,
August 8, 1861, and a little later assigned to Gen. Longstreet's brigade
head-quarters as regimental commissary. While so assigned he was at
the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Fraziers Farm (where he was
wounded), second Manassas, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Drainsville, Cold Harbor. After June 12, 1864, he was
with Gen. Early, and at all the battles in which his troops engaged
until after Cedar Creek battle, among them Hanover Junction, where
Capt. Lucado was again wounded. He surrendered at Appomattox
C. H., having been in constant service through the war, and one of the
original Home Guards. His brother William F. served in the 2d Virginia
Cavalry, from 1863 to the close of the war. Capt. Lucado is
engaged in the wholesale grocery business, which he has followed for a
number of years. He has been two years a member of the Lynchburg
city council.
