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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 41 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 11 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 2 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First cavalry. (search)
tered into service; and on the 19th of July Captain Boyd's company was mustered in at Philadelphia bhe officers of the company were: Captain, William H. Boyd; First Lieutenant, William W. Hanson; andpany on the 22d of August, and complimented Captain Boyd and his officers and men for their gallant f the Confederate cavalry. In this charge, Captain Boyd lost one man killed, Jacob Erwin, who is nolunteer cavalry. So much for Pennsylvania. Boyd's company was then attached to General Franklinver had a regiment to fill the vacancy left for Boyd's men. The company remained with General Fr against Mosby, Gilmore, and Imboden. Here Captain Boyd was promoted to the rank of major, and Lieuved at Martinsburg for Milroy, and three men of Boyd's company volunteered to take it through. Theil known to require a recital of it here. Major Boyd fought the advancing enemy at Martinsburg, wwles, a major in the same regiment. Lieutenant William H. Boyd and Sergeant E. Knowles were also tr[11 more...]
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter28: Gettysburg-Third day. (search)
. McComb; 56th Inf., Col. Samuel B. Dick; 57th Inf., Col. .Tames R. Porter; 58th Inf., Col. George H. Bemus; 59th Inf. (3d Union League), Col. George P. McLean; 60th Inf., Col. William F. Small; Ind. Battn. Inf., Lieut.-Col. John McKeage; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. Joseph K. Helmbold; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. Horace A. Beale; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. Benjamin T. Green; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. David Mitchel; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. Osborn E. Stephens; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. William F. Rich. Six Months Volunteers.-20th Cav., Col. John E. Wynkoop; 21st Cav., Col. William H. Boyd; 22d Cav. (Battn.), Maj. B. Mortimer Morrow; 1st Battn. Cav., Lieut.-Col. Richard C. Dale; Ind. Batt. (Park Batt.), Capt. Horatio K. Tyler; Ind. Batt., Capt. W. H. Woodward; Ind. Batt., Capt. Robert J. Nevin; 1st Battn. Inf., Lieut.-Col. Joseph F. Ramsey; 2d Battn. Inf., Lieut.-Col. John C. Lininger: 3d Battn. Inf., Lieut.-Col. T. Ellwood Zell; Ind. Co. Inf., Capt. Samuel T. Griffith; Ind. Co. uIf., Capt. William M. Schrock.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864. (search)
he other body of cavalry that had left Sigel on Sunday morning, that he had been to the top of the Blue Ridge and had there met fleeing citizens from Rappahannock County who said that this expedition consisted of the 1st New York Cavalry under Colonel Boyd, five hundred strong, and that they had been taking things leisurely and without molestation, on the east side of the mountain, and had stated to citizens where they camped that they were coming on to New Market by the middle of the week to rejoin General Sigel at that place. Upon this information we laid a trap for Colonel Boyd, and on Wednesday we captured 464 men, nearly all of this force. [See p. 488.] These mishaps to General Sigel's flanking parties of cavalry, sent out the previous Sunday, secured us the all-important few days' respite from his dreaded advance, and enabled General John C. Breckinridge, from south-western Virginia, to reach the valley with something over 2500 of his best veteran troops to be united with mine
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. (search)
and Averell. Before leaving Winchester, a force of 500 cavalry, under Colonel Jacob Higgins, was sent toward Wardensville to protect our right flank, and Colonel William H. Boyd, with 300 select horsemen, into the Luray Valley to cover our left flank, especially against Mosby; but Colonel Higgins was attacked and beaten by a detachment of Imboden's brigade between Wardensville and Moorefield on the 9th of May, and pursued north toward Romney. Colonel Boyd was ambuscaded on his way from the Luray Valley to New Market on the 13th and defeated, suffering a loss of 125 men [General Imboden, p. 481, says 464 men] and 200 horses. Meanwhile Sullivan's divisioan and Stahel, Captain Battersby's company being the last to cross the bridge. We would have remained at that place, but since the cavalry on our flank, under Colonels Boyd and Higgins respectively, had been beaten, flanks and rear were unprotected. We had a supply train of two hundred wagons with us, destined for General Crook i
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
Capt. Charles A. Phillips; 9th Mass., Lieut. Richard S. Milton; B, 1st N. Y., Lieut. Robert E. Rogers; C, 1st N. Y., Capt. David F. Ritchie; D, 1st N. Y., Capt. James B. Hazelton; E, 1st N. Y., Capt. Angell Matthewson; H, 1st N. Y., Capt. Charles E. Mink; L, 1st N. Y., Capt. George Breck; B, 1st Pa., Lieut. William McClelland; B, 4th U. S., Lieut. John Mitchell; D and G, 5th U. S., Lieut. Jacob B. Rawles. Sixth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Horatio G. Wright. Escort: E, 21st Pa. Cav., Capt. William H. Boyd, Jr. first division, Brig.-Gen. Frank Wheaton. First Brigade, Capt. Baldwin Hufty: 1st N. J. (3 co's), Lieut. Jacob L. Hutt; 2d N. J. (1 co.), Lieut. Adolphus Weiss; 4th N. J., Capt. Ebenezer W. Davis; 10th N. J., Capt. James W. McNeely; 15th N. J. (1 co. 3d N. J. attached), Capt. James W. Penrose; 40th N. J. (2 co's), Capt. John Edelstein. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Ranald S. Mackenzie: 2d Conn. Heavy Art'y, Lieut.-Col. James Hubbard; 65th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Henry C. Fisk; 121st N.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
Funk; 142d Pa., Lieut.-Col. Horatio N. Warren. Unattached: 1st Battalion N. Y. Sharp-shooters, Capt. Clinton Perry. artillery Brigade, Col. Charles S. Wainwright: B, 1st N. Y., Capt. Robert E. Rogers; D, 1st N. Y., Lieut. Deloss M. Johnson; H, 1st N. Y., Capt. Charles E. Mink; M, 15th N. Y. Heavy, Capt. William D. Dickey; B, 4th U. S., Lieut. William P. Vose; D and G, 5th U. S., Lieut. Jacob B. Rawles. Sixth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Horatio G. Wright. Escort: E, 21st Pa. Cav., Capt. William H. Boyd, Jr. first division, Brig.-Gen. Frank Wheaton. First Brigade, Col. William H. Penrose: 1st and 4th N. J. (batt'n), Lieut.-Col. Baldwin Hufty; 2d N. J. (2 co's), Capt. Adolphus Weiss; 3d N. J. (1 co.), Capt. James H. Comings; 10th N. J., Capt. James W. McNeely; 15th N. J., Maj. Ebenezer W. Davis; 40th N. J., Col. Stephen R. Gilkyson. Second Brigade, Col. Joseph E. Hamblin: 2d Conn. Heavy Art'y, Col. James Hubbard; 65th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Henry C. Fisk; 121st N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Egbert
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, William H. Boyd (search)
William H. Boyd Col. 21st Penn. CavalryDec., 1863, to Feb., 1864. Cavalry Brigade, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
two years. He has been adjutant of James D. Nance camp ever since its organization in 1893. He was twice married, on August 31, 1865, to Eliza Wilson, who died January 30, 1891, and on April 3, 1895, to Mrs. Ella I. Bell. He has three children living, two sons and one daughter. Jack C. Boyd Jack C. Boyd, of Greenville, one of the youngest soldiers of the Confederacy, and now colonel in the military service of the State, was born at Selma, Ala., November 15, 1848. His father was William H. Boyd, a native of Chester county, S. C.; his mother, Martha Lee, of Oglethorpe county, Ga., parentage. In January, 1863, at the age of fourteen years, he enlisted in Company A, Capt. C. S. Lee, of the Sixth Alabama cavalry, Col. C. H. Colvin commanding, and served with this regiment until in 1864, when he joined Company D, Sixty-second Alabama infantry, Capt. George D. Shortridge. At the fall of Mobile he was taken prisoner at Spanish Fort, and subsequently was confined on Ship island unti
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Bread Versus whiskey. (search)
his reach; to use what is necessary and of value for the subsistence of his troops, and to send the cotton to New York, here to be sold for the benefit of the Government. General Sherman is also directed to take the services of negroes, not only to aid in gathering the crops, but also in making fortifications. Federal reconnaissance near Fairfax Court-House. Washington, Nov. 29. --A reconnaissance was made yesterday by a squadron of the Lincoln cavalry, under command of Capt. Wm. H. Boyd. They proceeded to within about a mile of Fairfax Court-House, when they observed Confederate infantry partially concealed in rifle pits, which extended across the turnpike. A few Confederate cavalry were also in the rear, and within rifle range. Shots were exchanged, the Lincoln cavalry using their carbines, and taking every precaution to prevent a surprise, by deploying on foot to the right and left. The squadron returned in good order, having accomplished the object of the recon