Leander T. "Lee" Herron (1846–1937) was a Corporal in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for heroism near Fort Dodge, Kansas on September 2, 1868.
He attended the public schools of Fallsington until he moved to Hannahville, Canal Township, in Vanango County, Pennsylvania.
When Fort Sumter was attacked at the beginning of the American Civil War, Herron wanted to join the Union Army, but was rejected because he was only 14 at the time.
With pistols drawn, Herron and Boyle rode directly through the attackers and reached the imperiled soldiers.
In 1897 he claimed to be in a series of famous photographs taken on May 21, 1864, of General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff at Massaponax Church in Hanover County, Virginia.
[4] On 11 November 1921, Herron served as one of the official mourners at the burial of the Unknown Soldier of World War I in Arlington National Cemetery.
[5] In the 1930s Herron made a recorded interview with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who was also a Medal of Honor recipient, for the Chevrolet Chronicles radio show.