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William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

b. 1845-08-30 d. 1864-12-18

Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Jeremiah T. Boyle and Caroline Boyle. Resident of Boyle County, Kentucky in 1850. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attended Centre College in Boyle County in 1860. Household owned thirteen enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant from February 2, 1863 to November 2, 1863. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major and lieutenant colonel from November 2, 1863 to December 18, 1864. Killed at the Battle of Marion, Smyth County, Virginia on December 18, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 367A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 151A.

The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, 1860Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860, p. 38.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 270, 301, 800.

"William Owsley Boyle (1815-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 40637086, accessed May 18, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40637086.

Citation

Boyle, William Owsley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206858 (November 12, 2026).

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