David Boyd
Name: David Boyd
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 2nd USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 09/10/1863
Company: I
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Appointed Sergeant; Reduced in ranks due to mutiny on 1/1/1864; Arrested in Key West, FL; 2/22/1864 - Sentenced to five years confinement at Fort Jefferson in Tortuga, FL and loss of all pay; Service records state that he was free on or before 4/19/1861; Dishonorably discharged 8/1/1864
Source(s):
Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line].
