Married to Caroline Malone
Served in Company F, 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment CSA and was a POW
Shot and murdered in Jackson Tenn
Years after his death there was is a popular Lincoln Conspirary theroy that claims it wasnt John Wilkes Booth in April 1865 but that it was in fact CS Captain James "William" Boyd who was killed in the place of Booth. Despite a popular book and movie based on this theroy, it was debunked in "Civil War Times Illustrated" Magazine Volume 16 pp.47-49∼Confederate soldier and agent.
Served in the Confederate army as a captain in the 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment of Confederate States Army, Company F.
Captured during in 1863, and was released a year later following his wife's death.
He later became a Confederate agent following the downfall Confederate States of America.
After Lincoln's assassination, James wrote a letter to his son that he would meet him in Brownsville, Texas, for a trip to Mexico, but Boyd never showed up for the rendezvous.
According to a theory put forth by the 1977 book and subsequent film The Lincoln Conspiracy, Boyd was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and killed on April 26, 1865, at Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.
The theory adds that the U.S. government was aware of the error, but covered it up and, thus, enabled Booth to escape to freedom.
Served in Company F, 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment CSA and was a POW
Shot and murdered in Jackson Tenn
Years after his death there was is a popular Lincoln Conspirary theroy that claims it wasnt John Wilkes Booth in April 1865 but that it was in fact CS Captain James "William" Boyd who was killed in the place of Booth. Despite a popular book and movie based on this theroy, it was debunked in "Civil War Times Illustrated" Magazine Volume 16 pp.47-49∼Confederate soldier and agent.
Served in the Confederate army as a captain in the 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment of Confederate States Army, Company F.
Captured during in 1863, and was released a year later following his wife's death.
He later became a Confederate agent following the downfall Confederate States of America.
After Lincoln's assassination, James wrote a letter to his son that he would meet him in Brownsville, Texas, for a trip to Mexico, but Boyd never showed up for the rendezvous.
According to a theory put forth by the 1977 book and subsequent film The Lincoln Conspiracy, Boyd was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and killed on April 26, 1865, at Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.
The theory adds that the U.S. government was aware of the error, but covered it up and, thus, enabled Booth to escape to freedom.
Married to Caroline Malone
Served in Company F, 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment CSA and was a POW
Shot and murdered in Jackson Tenn
Years after his death there was is a popular Lincoln Conspirary theroy that claims it wasnt John Wilkes Booth in April 1865 but that it was in fact CS Captain James "William" Boyd who was killed in the place of Booth. Despite a popular book and movie based on this theroy, it was debunked in "Civil War Times Illustrated" Magazine Volume 16 pp.47-49∼Confederate soldier and agent.
Served in the Confederate army as a captain in the 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment of Confederate States Army, Company F.
Captured during in 1863, and was released a year later following his wife's death.
He later became a Confederate agent following the downfall Confederate States of America.
After Lincoln's assassination, James wrote a letter to his son that he would meet him in Brownsville, Texas, for a trip to Mexico, but Boyd never showed up for the rendezvous.
According to a theory put forth by the 1977 book and subsequent film The Lincoln Conspiracy, Boyd was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and killed on April 26, 1865, at Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.
The theory adds that the U.S. government was aware of the error, but covered it up and, thus, enabled Booth to escape to freedom.
Served in Company F, 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment CSA and was a POW
Shot and murdered in Jackson Tenn
Years after his death there was is a popular Lincoln Conspirary theroy that claims it wasnt John Wilkes Booth in April 1865 but that it was in fact CS Captain James "William" Boyd who was killed in the place of Booth. Despite a popular book and movie based on this theroy, it was debunked in "Civil War Times Illustrated" Magazine Volume 16 pp.47-49∼Confederate soldier and agent.
Served in the Confederate army as a captain in the 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment of Confederate States Army, Company F.
Captured during in 1863, and was released a year later following his wife's death.
He later became a Confederate agent following the downfall Confederate States of America.
After Lincoln's assassination, James wrote a letter to his son that he would meet him in Brownsville, Texas, for a trip to Mexico, but Boyd never showed up for the rendezvous.
According to a theory put forth by the 1977 book and subsequent film The Lincoln Conspiracy, Boyd was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and killed on April 26, 1865, at Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.
The theory adds that the U.S. government was aware of the error, but covered it up and, thus, enabled Booth to escape to freedom.
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