Boyd, John
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.).
Was there a John Boyd who served with the 1st SC Cavalry, Co H what was honorably discharged on April 26, 1865? I have a relative who, in the 1850's went to Kansas and then to Missouri where he is supposed to have married and joined the Confederate army. There were several John Boyds listed in Mo as having joined the Confederacy and the one who joined in SC at Rock Hill is supposed to be the one who live in Mo. The only other info listed on his military records in MO is the name and address of his daughter and her son. If he was in a SC unit why is he in the MO records? This is totally confusing to me.
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