Dr Leonard M. Eudy was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire on January 8, 1843.  He attended the Bethlehem school system through grade 12.   At the age of nineteen, in September of 1862, he enlisted in Company C 15th Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers as a private along with his brother, Ephraim, age 25 and his older brother,  William David Eudy, who enlisted on the same day as Leonard.

In December of 1862 Pvt Leonard Eudy boarded the steamer ship Cambria at Brooklyn New York.  Ephraim was left behind due to illness, but caught up with the Regiment later. So far I have found no further reference to William's military service, but he returned to Littleton after serving for 15 months, also in Co. C. His occupation is listed as a farmer, married Maria Woodbury on December 31, 1870,   The Cambria embarked on a twenty-six day cruise from Brooklyn, around Key West and finally ending up in Carrollton Louisiana (New Orleans).

In Carrolton on January 18, Sunday. a cold, east wind was blowing a gale. Charles B. Ela, Company C, was accidentally shot in thigh, and died soon after amputation.  Ela was the tallest man of Company C, and received his wound at the hand of the shortest man of the company, Leonard M. Eudy. They were just relieved from guard, and in a playful mood Ela took on the point of his bayonet a hollow soup bone that lay there, which Eudy undertook to knock off in a jocular way, when his gun discharged its contents into Ela's thigh, completely shattering the bones. Eudy was called the "bantam".   He was a mere schoolboy at the time of this sad accident, and his sensitive nature was so deeply shocked that he never recovered from its effects.

 After a month at Carrollton Eudy's Company took up residence at Camp Parapet about a mile upstream from current day New Orleans.  Life at this camp was described as monotony at its finest.  This was not to last as Company "C" spent the next six months of 1863 fighting in the swamps of Louisiana. They were a part of The Siege of Port Hudson and early in the Civil War the control of the Mississippee was of major importance to both the North and the South.  It's ultimate control by the Northern forces was a critical part of winning the war.

Company C had the dubious distinction of suffering the highest number of deaths  of all the Companies in the Regiment. Of the 71 original members 30 died, only 4 from battle related injuries, the rest from illness.

Both Leonard and Ephraim were mustered out of service in August 1863.  Early in 1865 Leonard commenced his medical education at Harvard University under the direction of Drs. Charles Tuttle and Henry Watson.  In 1870 Leonard began his medical practice in Littleton and moved to Bartlett in 1871. 

While practicing in Bartlett in 1877 an epidemic of small pox broke out in a lumber camp.  Eudy assumed charge of the camp and established a pest house.  Within a few months Eudy himself contracted the disease and died at the age of 34 on November 28, 1877. 

His grave site is a solitary grave at the base of Cave Mountain, surrounded by a black iron fence.  His marker plaque was replaced by a preservation committee led by Roger Marcoux in the late 1990's.