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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

In 1860 he was a wealthy 34 year old lawyer living with William Hughes and family in their hotel in the Union District, SC. He enrolled there on 12 January 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E of the First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers for 6 months' service. He mustered out with them as First Lieutenant in Richmond, VA on 9 July 1861. He enrolled again in the Union District on 13 September 1861 and was elected and mustered as Captain of the Macbeth Light Artillery on 16 September.

On the Campaign

He commanded his battery on the campaign.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the CSA General Military Hospital #4 in Wilmington, NC on 16 April 1863 with chronic dysentery, and was "attended by the Surgeon of the 18th Regt S. C. Vols" but died there 3 days later.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/24/1825 in SC

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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