Boley Embry Lord

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his cabinet maker father William Lord and 6 younger siblings at Phi Delta in Banks County, GA. He enlisted and mustered in Banks County as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry on 24 August 1861. He was listed as absent from his unit without leave from April to August 1861.

He was severely wounded by a gunshot which fractured his left tibia (shin bone) near the knee in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and was captured there.

He was treated initially at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital at Burkettsville, MD, then sent to US Army General Hospital (GH) #5 in Frederick, MD on 18 November. He was transferred to GH #6 on 29 December and on to GH #1 on 9 February 1863. On 27 April he was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore and three days later to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. There is no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was again a farmer, at Erastus/David in Banks County, GA. He was retired, and his daughter lived with him there by 1920.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also on the Patient List;2 US hospital records differ on whether it was his left or right leg that was wounded. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Clementine Wade (1844-1915) in November 1865 and they had 13 children.

Thanks to Keith Evans for the pointer to look into his great-great-grandfather, for a copy of his 1890 veteran's pension application, which confirms the wound details above, and a post-war photograph of Boley and Martha.

10/22/1839; Madison County, GA

12/15/1928; Commerce, GA; burial in Beaverdam Cemetery, Banks County, GA