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Col. Boyd’s Diary Intimate HistoryRecently Found in Old Home and Tells of Citil War Regiment Formed in Decatur*s^ A fitting Introduction to th* flr«t cvente of CM! war hletory, But thli Installment of Cot. J. P. Ooyd'a reeetii- leads up to th« formation of * red-men! in Deatur And to the actualIT discovered Civil 'war diary I* the 4 letter of hi# granddaughter Mr*. Dorothy Daker Suddat th of Kansas City, which the dispatched to The Be* ▼lew wttfc-th* manuscript. She has liad transcribed the diary written with pen and ink* no light task* She ncornliw} its value as family hlitory and Jilstory of th« nation, H« bad• always been a stranger to her. a man *tnnote and impersonal. in tne a paves of this diary f lived again for ' her. a real, patriotic and heroic man less concerned about hii-own hard* ahlps and suffering than he was about the suffering of bis country And his family,DUHT nEVEAI-S'ML'CiL!5be say*:•''Concerning the 1H£ of my grand* father, Colonel JirowV. Boyd. I have always ftlt that wo of the family Jinew very little about him hut the discovery ot the record which he kept . In the early part of the Civil war has revealed much of his personality.1 •‘Sffro after the death of my stand*, znpthar* Airs. 9* fL BotiI» In October* Hi:, the diary which my grandfather j had kept In the Civil war was dls* eovtrtd In the old house. The family was vary much ptsasefi at finding this old record which gave us an insight to my grandfather's life as well at a doseup of the' Civil war. Alto It'mentions a number o£ other well fcowa Decatur men of the time. lt;' . WITH OLD UOOKfi**17i fonnd this record tacked away v among ft lot of old hooks In th* borne at SO# West William street »oon after ’ the dtath of my grandmother In Oc*, lober last year* Th« first of this Journal merely gives brief outlines ofparticipation In * the campaign at Vicksburg. It was written almost entirely with ink and at limes It must 1 havo cost him much effort to make J the entries. Believing that others, and eipeclally Decatur folk will be lotereited in this personal account of the years JM0-1SC2 I submit this copr to The He view.The diary begins:DIARY OF COL JAMES P. BOTH* 1160,Nov. G—UncoJp elected by 190 electoral votes.Dec* 2—Congress met Great excitement because South Carolina refuses to-take part In con are** ion al affaire. Senators don't appear. Brice and Kent leave second week*Dee, IS—Cate, Secretary of fitate, ■ resigned. Wanted President to send more force to Pi. Moultrie. 1Dec* 20—South Carolina seceded. Oreat rejoicing In Dixie.Dec* tlt;—Maj. Anderson abandons FL Moultrie as untenable. Goes to Ft. Sumpter. Ft* Moultrie burned and guns spiked’by Charlestonians.Dec* 21—Com selling at 20 cents in Decatur* Park, fl.SO net*1*11.* Jan. Utar ot the West*' with U* ft, troops (iBO men) to strengthen Ft* 1 Sumpter lire on from Morris Island i and Ft Moultrie* 11 shots, two took •' effect* ^fltar of tha West turned to sesu Sharp correspondence between MaJ. Anderson and Cor. Pickens. Anderson threaten* to return fire.■Jan. 7lt;—Mississippi seceded*Jan* tl—Florida acceded* Alabama seceded* «.'tCvatfaaed Page fci
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 26, 1926
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