Another Lincoln Romance?

[Steve]

Mr. Fraker is wrong about William P. Boyce and Lincoln serving together during the Black Hawk War (besides the fact they were both veterans of the war). According to the Widow's Pension index card, Boyce was a sergeant in Capt. Gideon Simpson's company:

   

Simpson's company was in the 1st Regiment of Illinois volunteers. Capt Abraham Lincoln's company was in the 4th Regiment. During his second enlistment during the war Lincoln was a private in Elijah Iles company, which if I understand the book in the link below, was in the 2nd Regiment (but for some reason isn't explicitly state in the list of regiment captains)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49402/49...htm#i174_2

Here is William P. Boyce's Find A Grave page:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9512...tman-boyce