Frederick Boyett

Age 16, he enlisted at Bennett's Crossroads in Sampson County, NC on 18 October 1861 and mustered on 16 January 1862 at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company C, 38th North Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal by September 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 October, furloughed on 19 October and formally exchanged to return to duty on 20 November, but was discharged for being under-age on 9 December 1862.

By then 18 years old, he enlisted again, on 23 July 1863 in New Hanover County, NC and mustered as a Private in Company B of the First Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery. He was sick, in camp and in a Wilmington, NC hospital into February 1864 but back on duty by June 1864, with no later military record.

By 1870 he was a farmer near Blackman's Mills in Sampson County, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870, and his widow's probate filing of August 1877.

He married Nancy Haywood Elizabeth Whitfield (1848-1874) in September 1866 and they had 2 sons. He may have married again, Nancy C (?).

05/17/1845; Sampson County, NC

1877