Henry W. Boyd

(1838 - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted as Private, Company C at Madisonville, Texas in June 1861. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant 1 December 1861, but reduced to ranks by Col. J. B. Robertson on 25 June 1862. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant of his Company on 4 August 1862.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Polley 1, with service dates from a Roster posted online by reenactors at Hood's Brigade. His photo and birth information from Confederate Veterans of Kentucky (1895), online from the University of Kentucky.

Birth Date: 12/17/1838 Place of Birth: Richmond, KY
Death Date: 10/01/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 332-334 [AotW citation 2506]

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