Randolph Boyd enlisted on March 5, 1862, at Columbia, Alabama, for 3 years. He was captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1863, and forwarded from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 9, 1863. He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, where he died of typhoid fever on November 30, 1863, as a Prisoner of War. His burial location was given as "Jersey Shore opposite Post."
Sources:
Randolph Boyd, Civil War service records.
Civil War Prisoners of War Records, Register of Confederates Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861–1865, Finn's Point, Salem, NJ, NARA.
Randolph Boyd enlisted on March 5, 1862, at Columbia, Alabama, for 3 years. He was captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1863, and forwarded from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 9, 1863. He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, where he died of typhoid fever on November 30, 1863, as a Prisoner of War. His burial location was given as "Jersey Shore opposite Post."
Sources:
Randolph Boyd, Civil War service records.
Civil War Prisoners of War Records, Register of Confederates Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861–1865, Finn's Point, Salem, NJ, NARA.
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