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James H. Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, student and farm hand)

b. 1839?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, student and farmhand. Kentucky native. Son of William W. Boyd and M. Catherine "Kate" Boyd. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmhand in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a second corporal from September 28, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 349A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 35.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 486B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 70.

Citation

Boyd, James H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208441 (November 12, 2026).

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