Hugh Dickson Boozer

He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 October 1862, was First Corporal by April 1863, and was promoted to 4th Sergeant, date not given. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and he was held in the prison at Fort Delaware. He was transferred to City Point, VA on 27 February 1865 for exchange, but he

escaped on the same day by eluding the vigilance of the guard, getting on board a steamer, his escape not having been discovered until after the steamer had left.

He returned to Grimes County, TX but moved with his wife and 4 children to Blanco County in 1876, and was a laborer there in 1880 and a farmer by 1900.

His service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as H.D. Boozer. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880 and 1900. Some records have his middle name as Dixon. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Sandi Costa.

He married Judith Orcene Gresham (1845-1935) in October 1865 in Grimes County and they had 6 children.

06/1842; Abbeville, SC

04/30/1907; burial in Round Mountain Cemetery, Round Mountain, TX