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Kansas History

Lieutenant Boyd - The Indian War of 1864

The Indian War of 1864

by Eugene Ware

Crane & Co., Topeka, Kans.1911.

We left Bordeaux ranch at six o'clock on the morning of October 30, 1864, and rode forty-three miles to Camp Shuman, now called "Camp Mitchell," near Scott's Bluffs, as before stated. Captain Shuman had named it after General Mitchell. We all slept on the dirt floor in the headquarters room at Camp Mitchell that night. Lieutenant Williams never drank anything. He was one of the few officers I ever saw who were total abstainers. He and I slept under the same blanket on the floor. The room was about fifteen feet square, and Lieutenant Boyd, who was the Second Lieutenant, slept on the floor near us. Captain Shuman, as stated, had gone to Fort Laramie. Lieutenant Ellsworth commanded the post, and Lieutenant Boyd the company. This was a technical arrangement. There must always be a post commander although there is only a company present at the post, so that Lieutenant Boyd commanded all the men at the post as "Company Commander," and Lieutenant Ellsworth commanded all the men at the post as "Post Commander." While we were lying on the floor Boyd every once in a while got up and went to the corner of the room. We ascertained in a little while that he was going into Captain Shuman's box of "St. Croix Rum Punch." After a while Boyd got gloriously drunk, all by his lone self. He never offered us anything, but just filled up. Finally he got us up and wanted to tell us a "simple instance." What he meant was "a simple incident," but he was so full that he could not get his words straight, and he would pull at us and at the blankets over us and have us listen to his "simple instance." His "simple instance" was how he and Captain Shuman had recently had a fight, and he had "knocked Captain Shuman just twenty feet." It was not an inch more or less. He had measured and it was just even twenty feet; and after he had told it all over and we had dropped off into a doze he would wake us up again to relate this "simple instance," and tell it all over again. By one o'clock in the morning Lieutenant Williams got a little bit tired of the "simple instance," and finally Boyd dropped off to sleep. The next morning Lieutenant Williams took some affidavits at the post, and among others the affidavit of Lieutenant Boyd about his "simple instance," and the result was that Boyd got dismissed from service for striking a superior officer and for drunkenness, and my old acquaintance "Shad-blow" got to be Second Lieutenant.

 History of Kansas and Kansans

Vol. 1
LIST OF ELECTION DISTRICTS AND PLACES OF HOLDING ELECTIONS:
A G. BOYD.

BIG SPRINGS CONVENTION:
Tenth District -  J. H. BOYD

Vol. 2
JOHN W. LEEDY was born in Richland County, Pa., March 8,1849. He married
MISS SARAH J. BOYD, of Frederickstown,Ohio, by whom he had three
children. They moved to Coffey County, Kansas, in 1880, and took a farm
near Leroy. He accumulated some property, which was later lost through
business reverses.

SECOND KANSAS VOLUNTEER BATTERY:
WILLIAM H. BOYD, Mansfield.

Owned and Controlled by the Church of the Brethren:
In June, 1902, McPherson College met an irreparable loss in the death of
Pres. C.E. Arnold at the early age of thirty-six years. The following brethren have served as trustees up to time of recognition:
A. L. BOYD

CAMPAIGN OF 1892:
One delegate for each district was sent to Omaha, as follows:
H. N. BOYD

Vol. 3
WILLIAM POLLOM was born in Ohio, in 1838. He was married in 1856 to
ANN BOYD, of Muskingum County, Ohio, and not long thereafter moved to
Clay County, Indiana,and then to Putnam County, in the same state. In
1871, locating in North Topeka, after two years returned to the old Indiana home. Eight years later again came to Kansas. This was again North Topeka, where they remained for one year and then occupied the David Shellabarger farm for five years. Subsequently they went to Pottawatomie County, Kansas, and lived near Louisville for five years, and then returned to Shawnee County and bought the Hickman farm, on Indian Creek, where Mr. Pollom erected a residence. His final move, at the time of his retirement from active affairs, was to the City of Tacoma, Washington, where Mr. Pollom is living.Mrs. Pollom is deceased. They were the parents of eleven children.

FRANK C. BOWEN was born in Indiana, and came to Topeka in 1869. In that
year he married MISS EMMA G. BOYD, daughter of WILLIAM BOYD, a pioneer settler of Shawnee County. In 1870 Frank C. Bowen and wife removed to Wamego where he opened a book and stationery store. After several years
in that business he returned to Topeka, and in 1874 resumed the same
line of business in the Capital City. He and his wife have two sons, HARRY JUSTICE, who for many years has been a trusted employe of the W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Company of Topeka; and DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS.

Vol. 4
In 1892 at Bockport, Indiana, Charles T. Carpenter and Miss Temple WEST were united in marriage. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Pike County, Indiana. Her ancestors, the Wests, came from England to Virginia in colonial times. Her grandfather, HUGH WEST, a native of Virginia, saw active service in the Mexican war, and spent his life as a farmer in Kentucky and Ohio. He died in Clermont County, Ohio. He was a whig in politics. HUGH WEST married ROSANNA BOYD, who was born in South Carolina and died in Indiana about 1867.

Vol. 5
Mr. KLEIN was married in 1880, at Summerfield, Illinois, to Miss Katherine Reinhart, daughter of Michael and Dorothy Reinhart, the latter a resident of Summerfield, where the former, who was a butcher by vocation, died several years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Klein are the parents of two children: CORA B., a graduate of Fine Arts at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and is the WIFE OF DR. C. A. BOYD, a practicing physician and surgeon at Belpre, Edwards County, Kansas

Mr. HOWE was married at Marion, Kansas, December 24, 1876, to Clara Bell
Frazer. Mr. and Mrs. Howe became the parents of eight children: BERTRICE AILEEN, WIFE OF JAMES G. BOYD.

MARGARET GILLILAND, who died in North Bend, Nebraska, in October, 1914, married ARTHUR BOYD, a miller at North Bend.

Source: Connelley, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918.

Leavenworth, Kansas History Name Index

Name                  Page
BOYD, Agnes       606
BOYD, C.             590
BOYD, Leslie        606
BOYD, Neal          511
BOYD, Vollie         606

Source: The History of Leavenworth County, Kansas, published in 1921.

NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.

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