William H. Boyd
Name: William H. Boyd
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 21st PA Cav., 182nd Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 02/16/1864
Company: Staff
Rank at End of Service: Colonel
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Transfers and Other Service: 21st Pa. Cav. (6 month); Co. C 1st N. Y. Cav. Capt.; Wounded at Cold Harbor, gun shot wound to the neck 6/3/1864; Chambersburg Hosp. 07-00-1864 through 11-00-1864; Chambersburg on disability from gun shot wound to the right neck, the ball lodged near the spine 11/4/1864
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
