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Confederate (CSA)

Captain

Robert Boyce

(1825 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Command Billet: Battery Commander

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Macbeth (SC) Artillery

see his Battle Report

Before Sharpsburg

A 36 year old lawyer in the Union District, he was commissioned Captain, Battery C, Macbeth Light Artillery on 13 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He commanded his battery at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the CSA General Military Hospital in Wilmington, NC on 16 April 1863 and died there of chronic dysentery on 19 April.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/24/1825

Death

04/19/1863; Wilmington, NC; burial in Boyce Family Cemetery, Laurens, SC

Notes

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 30288]

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