The Robert Bruce Angle and Claire Louise Frank Family: Leslie Combs Bell

Leslie Combs Bell and Mosby Reynolds Bell Family 1895
Children - Leslie C., Andrew Wilks, Edward C., William Reynolds

(sepia photo of his daughter Edna 1884-1962), Stella Dorothea, Bessie L., Maggie S., and Pauline H.
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1924 Angles and Bells
Back row: Rachel and George Walter Angle Jr., George Walter Angle Sr., Phillip Signor Sr. and Leslie Wetmore - Middle row: Unknown, June Angle, Pauline Bell Fenton, Edna Signor and William Reynolds Bell - Front row: Walter Angle, Harold Fenton and Virginia Fenton

Bell-Angle Family 1925
Home of George & Bessie L. Bell Angle, Cooke Street, Waterbury, CT
Bessie L. Bell Angle's siblings are lighted in blue

Top row: William Reynolds Bell & Bessie Bell, Bessie L. Bell Angle, William Brodie, Pauline Bell Fenton & Harry Fenton - Next row: Lois Bell, Margaret Wetmore, Stella Dorothea Bell Wetmore and Margaret Bell Brodie - Next row: Leslie Wetmore and George Angle Sr. - Bottom row: Winfield Bell, Dick Fenton, Edith Caulkins (friend of Margaret Wetmore), Virginia Fenton, Rachel Angle and George Angle

Bell Family-about 1928
Back L-R:Harold, Charles, Edna, Kenneth, Margaret, Stanley,
Winfield, Frank, Madeline, Paul, Edward - Front L-R: Lois,
Doris, William R. Bell, Bessie Bell, Dorothy and Katherine

Bell Family 1950

Back L-R: Paul Feuerstein (husband of Lois Bell), Fred Susenburger (husband of Katherine Bell), Frank Bell and wife Cora, Carl Pearson (husband of Margaret Bell), Edward Howard Bell and wife Maudie, Paul Bell and wife Elise, Kenneth Bell, Phillip Signor and wife Edna Bell,Therm Hummel (husband of Dorothy Bell), Harold Bell, Stanley Bell, Carl Goodrich (husband of Madeline Bell), Winfield Bell, Charles Leslie Bell - Front L-R: Lois Bell Feuerstein, Katherine Bell Susenburger, Margaret Bell Pearson, Helen Bell (wife of Paul Bell), Bessie Bell & William Bell, Dorothy Bell Hummel, Madeline Bell Goodrich, Margaret (wife of Stanley Bell) and Doris Bell Satti

Fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia
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CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS

28th Regiment, Virginia Infantry

The 28th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Lynchburg, Virginia, in June, 1861. Its members were raised in the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Bedford, Campbell, and Roanoke. After fighting at First Manassas the unit was assigned to General Pickett's, Garnett's, and Hunton's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.

It was active in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it served with Longstreet at Suffolk. The 28th moved to North Carolina, then was on detached duty at Richmond. It fought at Cold Harbor, endured the battles and hardships of the Petersburg trenches, and was engaged in various conflicts around Appomattox.

The regiment totalled 600 men in April, 1862, and reported 40 casualties at Willi amsburg at 47 at Seven Pines. It lost 12 killed and 52 wounded at Second Manassas, had 8 killed and 54 wounded during the Maryland Campaign, and, of the 333 engaged at Gettysburg, half were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and 3 officers and 51 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Robert C. Allen, Robert T. Preston, and William Watts; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel B. Paul and William L. Wingfield; and Majors Michael P. Spesard and Nathaniel C. Wilson.

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Leslie Combs Bell, son of William L. Bell and Elizabeth Leftwich, father of Bessie L. Bell, and great grandfather to Robert Bruce Angle, was an American Civil War soldier - a Confederate from Virginia.
He enlisted on April 26, 1861. His papers showed him as a farmer – 5′ 11′′ grey eyes, red hair and a florid complexion.

Leslie enlisted as a private at the age of 20 as a member of the 28^th Virginia Infantry. He was wounded on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He was POW on April 6, 1865 and confined at Point Lookout, Maryland. He took the oath of allegiance on June 23, 1865 when he was released from Point Lookout as a Sergeant Major, and returned to his home in Virginia.