CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. A. BOYD.-  Fort Worth, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

J. A. BOYD.

John A. Boyd of Fort Worth is a native of Rutherford County, Tennessee, 
and removed with his father's family to Texas in 1849, and settled in 
Rusk, Cherokee County, where he spent his boyhood.  When the tocsin of
war was sounded throughout the Southland, he enlisted in Company C, 
3rd Texas Cavalry, and first saw service at Oak hills and Elk Horn 
Tavern.  His command was dismounted and sent east of the Mississippi 
River, where it joined the army of Gen. Beauregard at Corinth, Miss.  
Here is where the gallantry of young Boyd attracted attention, and 
upon the organization of Ector's Brigade he was invited to take a 
place on Gen. Ector's staff which he held with distinguished ability 
until the close of the war.  Returning home he entered the mercantile 
business in Rusk until he moved to Fort Worth, making that city his 
home.  In 1866 he married Miss Amy E. Harrison, a daughter of Col. 
Ben Harrison, prominent citizen and planter of Cherokee County.  Dr. 
Frank D. Boyd, a specialist of the eye, nose and throat, of Fort 
Worth is a son of Maj. Boyd.  Dr. Boyd is among the most prominent 
professional men in that city, which has so many men of eminence.  
Major Boyd possesses that degree of elegance and refinement that 
makes him so popular with his people.  A true gentleman and a knightly 
character, with a refinement that reminds one of the fact that he is 
an old time Southerner, hospitable, generous and chivalrous.  As a 
soldier he performed his duty; as an officer, he was efficient, 
competent, and popular with every one that knew him.  Was a member 
of Ross brigade, but transferred to the staff of Gen.  Ector, and 
now both brigades claim him for his honesty, his gallantry, in fact 
for his moral worth and sterling manhood.  Maj. Boyd followed the 
fortunes of Ector's Texas brigade,  and that within itself is an 
endorsement of any one to place his name on the roll of fame.