Boyd Civil War Chat

Today was another great Boyd Cousin Connection!  We focused on the Civil War.  Cousin Jane shared a number of scans from a small pocket book of John Boyd Sr.'s.  He carried this small book during the Civil War.  This little treasure held encouraging Bible verses, clippings and photos.  Several of the photos were new to all of us.  

1864 - "62 years old this morning"

What's a 60 something doing serving in the Civil War??

 

Son George Yardley Boyd

John's son, John, who served in the same regiment.

 

Older Susan Yardley Boyd, John's Wife

Young Susan Yardley Boyd

Their Commander - 112th Illinois

 

Awesome Boyd Research Week!

It's been an exciting week in Boyd family research!  It started out with someone viewing my Boyd Ancestry tree.  When I contacted them, I learned that they are part of our RC Boyd tree, descended from John Thomas (Tom) Boyd, RC's son.  This is the first connection made with this branch of our tree.  So glad to make your acquaintance!  

Will look forward to sharing and learning more about your branch of the family.

A couple of weeks back, I was looking at Horatio Boyd's FindaGrave page and saw that someone had posted a link to some information about a Civil War diary.  Thank you for sharing that bit of information!  

I got to work on locating the whereabouts of the microfilm and it arrived from the Illinois library to our local University library this week.  Thank you to the relative who had the precious little book microfilmed back in the 70s.  Not sure of the whereabouts of the original book, but the microfilm will be back in Illinois in a few weeks and available for check out.  

There are entries for every day in the year 1864.  It begins when Horatio is recuperating in an Army hospital from wounds to the head and neck.  He shares brief bits about day to day life, movement of his unit, word from family, etc.  I've worked through May at this time.  It is interesting reading, fun to see mention of his family members. 

Here's a glimpse of what life's like in their world.

I continue to be amazed at the documents and artifacts left by our ancestors and wonder what our descendants 150 years from now will find left of our treasures!