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BOYD, ROBERT T, Co B, private, enlisted for 3 years in
Carroll Co, TN on 8/21/62 and mustered at Humboldt, TN on
8/26/62 at the same time and places as his brother Jabez T
Boyd. He was 20 years old (b. 4/12/1845) and received $100
bounty for enlistment. He does not appear to have been
captured at Trenton or Lexington, TN but is with the
detachment in May and June 1863, stationed most likely on
the Tennessee/Mississippi line. Presumed captured with the
regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Boyd spent time in
Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was released through
Jacksonville, FL at the same time as his brother Jabez and
was discharged from the service on the same day, as well.
He returned to Carroll Co, TN and lived near Buena Vista,
TN in the 1890 veterans' census. He reported his ailments
that year as scurvy and weakness of the eyes. Boyd applied
for and received an invalid pension, #161,411/120,721
(unknown year). He died on 4/1/1904 and is buried in the
Spellings Cemetery in Carroll Co, TN with a military marker
on his grave. His wife, Lincy E Boyd, received a widow's
pension. MR #2193
Sources:
- Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
