Identification of Booth's body

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Steve for sending this material. Steve writes, "I saw the James W. Boyd posts on the forum. I was able to find a newspaper account of Boyd's murder from page 2 of the 10 Jan. 1866 edition of the Memphis Daily Avalanche, reporting on a story first published in the West Tennessee Whig of Jackson, Tennessee. Unfortunately, the West Tennessee Whig isn't available on any of the newspaper databases I use. So I decided to see if there were any published diaries from people living in Madison County, Tennessee that mentioned the murder, and I found one that did! Robert H. Cartmell mentioned the murder in his diary. And he specifically mentions that the James W. Boyd that was murdered in Tennessee was in the 6th Tenn. Infantry and had been a prisoner of war for over a year. The part about Boyd starts toward the end of the first page I'm sending and continues onto the top of the second page.

Here's a link to the Robert H. Cartmell diaries if anybody wants to explore an account of the civil war from that part of Tennessee:

http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landi...5138coll39