Captain Alfred Andrew Boyd
"Capt. Alfred Andrew Boyd,
of Summit, a veteran of Hardcastle's
Battalion, Mississippi infantry,
was born at Matagorda,Texas., 10 August
1842. His parents, Alfred
G. Boyd, born near Wilmington, Delaware
and Anna
Whitehead, a native of England, moved to Texas in 1839, and
in 1846 to Memphis, Tenn.,
where the father died in 1852.
Captain Boyd was educated at
Petersburg, Va., and Summit, Miss., and
left his studies at the latter
place to enlist in McNair Rifles, under Capt.
R. H. McNair, afterward known
as Company E of the Third Mississippi
Battalion, Maj. A. B. Hardcastle
commanding. This famous Battalion
was organized at Jackson in
December, 1861; proceeded to Bowling
Green, Ky., and returning
after the fall of Fort Donelson, did gallant
service at the battle of Shiloh,
where Mr. Boyd, then a private, was struck
on the breast my a minie-ball,
but saved from serious injury by the inter-
position of a notebook in
his pocket. He went through the campaign about
Corinth during Halleck's siege,
took part in Bragg's Kentucky campaign,
including the Battle of Perryville,
and the battles of Murfreesboro and
Chickamauga.
At Dalton, Ga., prior to the
Atlanta campaign, he was elected captain of
his company. In May and June,
1864, he fought with his command from
Dalton to New Hope Church
and Kenesaw Mountain, and on the latter line
was captured. Then being sent
north, he was held at Johnson's Island, Lake
Erie, for a period off eleven
months, until the close of the war. On his return
to Mississippi, he was occupied
as a clerk until 1882. Then being elected
mayor, he served until 1883,
when he was elected sheriff of Pike county, a
position he filled with general
satisfaction and much credit to himself for
thirteen years.
In February of 1896, he organized
the bank of Summit, of which he was
elected cashier. In
this capacity he is yet acting, contributing in no slight
degree to the success of the
institution. Captain Boyd was married in 1864
to Jennie
Wicker, who died in 1874; afterward wedded Fannie
Lamkin, who
died in 1884, and in 1895
married Gussie Lamkin, his present wife. He
has a
daughter and two sons living."
"Confederate
Military History," Edited by General Clement A. Evans
(1833-1911),
Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate Publishing Company,
1899.
Vol 8, Mississippi."