William T. Boyd

Born [date unknown] in United States [uncertain]

Died 23 Mar 1863 in Readville, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

William Boyd is a part of US Black heritage.

Private William Boyd served in the United States Civil War.
Side: USA

Military Service

During the Civil War, he trained as a Private in Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army, the first regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He likely enlisted in Pennsylvania.^[1] He died on 23 March 1863 at the training camp in Readville, Massachusetts.

Wm. T. Boyd, of Pa., died this day (23d). He was in the hospital but two days. He was a member of Co. B.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Gooding, p. 8
2. ↑ Gooding, p. 8

• Gooding, James Henry and Virginia M. Adams (ed.) On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. University of Massachusetts Press: April 1999.