Records first indicate him at the burial of his wife on 1 Jul 1849 at Baldwinsville, Riverside Cemetery.

Later he was a Pilot licensed in New Orleans and living with David at St. Louis.

Listed in special 1856 Lee Co, IA census, with wife Louisa and son Robert - occupation Steamboat Pilot

1860 Census-New Orleans, LA - with wife, Louisa, son Robert and son Arthur

According to the diary of Edward Pitt Hicks, Leonard Rudd enlisted in the Confederate Army and this was he last he ever heard of him.

There was an L. Rudd, Private Conscript, Prisoner of War, paroled at Meridian, MS May 10, 1865 - Residence, Memphis, TN. Listed in "Booth, Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Command."