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(1831 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 28 September and furloughed for 40 days on 6 October 1862. He was back with his Company by January 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was working a small farm in Smith County, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J.T. Boykin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Sarah Womack (1832-1880) in about 1852 and they had 4 children by 1860.
Birth
01/16/1831; Smith County, MS
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29689]