Robert Boyd

First Name: Robert
Last Name: Boyd
Residence (County): 
Abbeville County, SC
Biography: 

Robert Boyd (1804-1875) was an Irish immigrant and a resident of Anderson County, South Carolina at the time of the Civil War. In 1860, he was a widower with five sons and two daughters. His first wife Catherine Boyd had died in 1846. He would remarry to Hannah Crowther. All five of his sons and one son-in-law fought for the Confederacy; only one, Daniel, survived.

Received Letters

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ID Letter Date Author Recipient From To
10727 Boyd2 May 21, 1861 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Barnwell County, SC Abbeville County, SC
10728 Boyd3 May 25, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Manchester, VA
10730 Boyd4 June 15, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Manassas Junction, VA Abbeville County, SC
10732 Boyd6 August 8, 1861 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Vienna, Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10733 Boyd7 August 20, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Richmond, Richmond County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10734 Boyd8 September 10, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10735 Boyd9 September 22, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10736 Boyd10 October 24, 1861 Robert Pressly Boyd John Thomas Boyd , Andrew Boyd , Sarah Catherine Boyd , Robert Boyd Centreville, Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10737 Boyd11 November 11, 1861 Daniel Boyd , Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Centreville, Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10738 Boyd12 January 9, 1862 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd , Sarah Catherine Boyd Centreville, Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10740 Boyd14 February 18, 1862 William B. Tucker Robert Boyd John's Island, Charleston County, SC Abbeville County, SC
10741 Boyd15 March 26, 1862 John Thomas Boyd Robert Boyd , Sarah Catherine Boyd Abbeville County, SC
10742 Boyd16 May 1, 1862 John Thomas Boyd Robert Boyd Mobile County, AL Abbeville County, SC
10743 Boyd17 May 11, 1862 John Thomas Boyd Robert Boyd Tishomingo County, MS Abbeville County, SC
10745 Boyd19 May 18, 1862 William Boyd Robert Boyd VA Abbeville County, SC
10746 Boyd20 July 2, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Fairfax County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10749 Boyd22 July 6, 1862 Robert Pressly Boyd Robert Boyd Henrico County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10751 Boyd24 August 1, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Richmond, Richmond County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10752 Boyd25 August 18, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Abbeville County, SC
10753 Boyd26 October 19, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Berkeley County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10754 Boyd27 November 14, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Culpeper, Culpeper County, VA Abbeville County, SC
10757 Boyd30 December 19, 1862 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Fredericksburg, VA Abbeville County, SC
10759 Boyd32 January 13, 1863 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Fredericksburg, VA Abbeville County, SC
10760 Boyd33 January 13, 1863 Robert N. Chatham Robert Boyd Shelbyville, Bedford County, TN Abbeville County, SC
10762 Boyd35 January 27, 1863 Daniel Boyd Robert Boyd Fredericksburg, VA Abbeville County, SC

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