Albert F. "Tod" Lee was one of five sons of Burton and Henrietta (Steele) Lee. Todd's brothers were Norris, Bruce, David, and Jason. All became soldiers except Jason.

Albert F. Lee enlisted at age 19 at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, on 6 June 1861. He mustered into Company A of the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment on June 6, 1861. He served as a private in the 24th O.V.I. until his appointment to corporal on August 31, 1862. Tod was shot in the leg at Rocky Faced Ridge, near Dalton, Georgia, 24 February 1864 and died in a hospital on 8 March 1864 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, of the wound received. Lee's remains were sent home for burial, and now repose in the North Fairfield cemetery, Huron County, Ohio.

Albert F. Lee's mother, Henrietta L. Lee, unsuccessfully filed for a mother's pension on 18 June 1864. She did not obtain a pension.

The Tod Lee Post Number 503 of North Fairfield [Division of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic] was chartered November 7, 1884, and was named in memory of Albert F. "Tod" Lee, corporal in the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Sources:

24th O.V.I. Pension Index.
Ohio Adjutant General's Roster of Ohio Troops.
Whitelaw Reid, "Ohio in the War."
A Military History of Huron County, Ohio, by Larry H. Ommert (1989)," page 34.

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