Our family info had him killed in the war while acting Brigadier General. Where that info came from I don't know. It was in a letter written in 1949 by a then 87 yr old man. John Boyd also had a younger brother Vance Marion Boyd. He joined a Mo unit in Dec 1861 and was dead on Aug 17, 1862, killed and buried at Priceville, Ms which is now an extinct town.
I have some more Stukes Civil War soldiers to add to your Index when I get the time, probably tomorrow. There were 17 Stukes in the Civil War, all were my relatives, one being my great grandfather. One had moved to Ms and entered the war there and was captured and imprisoned at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, Ind. He died after a year of chronic bronchitis. He was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery in Indianapolis but in the 1930's the town wanted to build on that site the the bodies were "moved" and buried in a "mass grave" at Crown Hill Cemetery. There is a nice monument to these men and several bronze grave stones with the names of the men buried there by state. I would like to know what happened to the original grave marker as I would like to have the one belonging to George Washington Stukes (G. W.).