Alfred Boyden

Mr. Alfred Boyden enlisted in Co. A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers at the age of 17. In 1863 Mr. Boyden was promoted to Corporal and was honorably discharged at Harrisburg in 1865, after having participated in sixteen battles including the Battle of Pollock’s Mills, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Funkstown, Haymarket, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Cold Harbor, Pamunkey River, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad and Hatcher’s Run. He was promoted to corporal November 26, 1863, and was honorably discharged from the service at Harrisburg, June 29, 1865.

 The Wellsboro Gazette - Thursday, 26 Jan 1922  An interesting reminiscence was brought to mind by the recent death of Alfred Boyden, a Civil War veteran of this borough. Mr. Boyden and his brother Sanford were privileged some years ago to visit the battlefield of Gettysburg, where they both fought and saw their names recorded on the monument there as having fallen in battle. A knapsack containing a bundle of letters, which one of them threw away during the fight, was picked up by some unknown men, who were killed, and finding the papers in the possession of the dead, the latter were buried as the Boyden brothers, who knew nothing about it until visiting the battlefield in after years, they were amazed to find they had fallen there in 1863.