Notes for Henry William Boney: [Rosser-Boney-Smith-Nabers-Gates.FTW]
Henry Boney died in the Battle of Raymond May 12 1863.
Following the Union victory at Grand Gulf and Port Gibson, Grant moved his army in a northeasterly direction toward Raymond, using the Big Black River to protect Major General John A. McClernand's corps on the Union left. Major General William T. Sherman was in the center and Major General James B. McPherson on the right. Grant planned to strike the Southern Railroad of Mississippi between Vicksburg and Jackson and isolate Vicksburg by cutting Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's supply and communications line. On May 12 Major General McPherson's XVII Corps was marching along the Utica Road southeast of Raymond in the valley of Fourteen-mile Creek when about 10:00 a.m. its skirmish line was suddenly hit by the deadly fire of Brigadier General John Gregg's battle-hardened Confederate brigade. The three guns of Captain Hiram Bledsoe's Missouri battery, positioned to cover the bridge across the creek, also opened fire on the Federals at a range of 1,000 yards.
Gregg had though his 4,000 men could turn the Federal right flank. Faulty intelligence informed him he was facing a small force. When the 50th Tennessee Infantry crossed Fourteen-mile Creek, they realized instead that McPherson had 12,000 men before them. While thick clouds of smoke and dust obscured the field, Gregg met initial success as his regiments attacked across the creek en echelon to the left. The Federals checked the attack by early afternoon and counterattacked.
Union brigades continued to arrive on the field and deployed on both sides of the Utica Road, massing 22 pieces of artillery along the ridge to support the infantry. They pushed forward at 1:30 p.m. and drove the Confederates back across Fourteen-mile Creek. The fighting was confused because neither commander knew the location of his units. Union strength finally broke the Confederate right flank along the Utica Road and the battle ended with Gregg's retreat through Raymond and out the Jackson Road, where they bivouacked for the night near Snake Creek. McPherson's troops remained at the tiny village of Raymond. Major General Grant made his headquarters at Waverly, the home of Major John Peyton.
The fight at Raymond cost Gregg 73 killed, 252 wounded, and 190 missing, most of whom were from the 3rd Tennessee and the 7th Texas. McPherson's losses totaled 446 of whom 68 were killed, 341 wounded, and 37 missing.
The Confederate Cemetery has 140 graves of soldiers mortally wounded in the Battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863. The Civil War soldiers, mostly from Tennessee and Texas, died in private residences around the town that served as hospitals. A few probably died of sickness while stationed in the area or died of wounds from various local skirmishes or nearby battles such as Champion's Hill. Those that were killed outright on the battlefield of Raymond were reported to have been buried where they fell by Union soldiers. In 1985, an effort was initiated by Roger Hansen of Pascagoula to identify the Confederate dead of the Battle of Raymond. A total of 109 were found, based upon the Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers in the National Archives, to have been killed or mortally wounded on the Raymond battlefield. (The Union dead at Raymond were removed after the war by the Federal Government and reinterred in the National Cemetery at Vicksburg.) This compiled list is the first accounting of the Southern heroes that died in and around Raymond as a result of the 12 May 1863 battle, but it should not be considered all inclusive due to the incompleteness of historical records.
Abernathy, Samuel H., Co A, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Alexander, Sgt. Robert H., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Allen, Pvt. Benjamin L., Co E, 12th Louisiana Infantry Allen, Sgt. B. S., Co A, 50th Tennessee Infantry Alley, William B., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Bagley, William H., Co A, 41st Tennessee Infantry Barrett, Patrick, Co K, 10th Tennessee Infantry Bearden, W.V.S., Co G, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Benerman, John W., Co D, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Bond, Sgt. Thomas J., Co F, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Boney, Henry W., Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Boone, Capt. Abner S., Co F, 41st Tennessee Infantry Branerly, Thomas, Co B, 10th Tennessee Infantry Bryam, Corp. J., Co K, 30th Tennessee Infantry Callaway, Sgt. Joshua S., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Cannon, W. S., Co B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Cardin, Sgt. William D., Co A, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Chaffin, Corp. E. C., Co H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Clark, David, Co F, 30th Tennessee Infantry Claunch, T. J., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Claxton, W. L., Co H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Compton, J. L., Co B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Conner, Pvt. Thaddeus, Co A, 43rd Tennessee Infantry Cooper, Capt. Robert T., Co C, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Cotton, Corp. John A., Co B, 22nd Mississippi Infantry Cowden, Sgt. J. T., Co B, 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Cox, Sgt. Albert J., Co F, 50th Tennessee Infantry Craft. Jessee, Co E, 7th Texas Infantry Crigler, E. V., Co B, 7th Texas Infantry Daughtery, Josiah H., Co F, 30th Tennessee Infantry Davidson, A., Co C, 7th Texas Infantry Dotson, J. B., Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Drown, R. C. S., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Eagan, Richard, Co A, 10th Tennessee Infantry East, William, Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Fairchild Sgt. Joseph B. , Co K, 3rd Mississippi Infantry Featherston, Charles H. F., Co F, 7th Texas Infantry Fulgam, E. J., Co E, 30th Tennessee Infantry Franklin, William L., Co A, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Freeman, I. N., Co A, 30th Tennessee Infantry Freeman, John L., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Galloway, J. L., Co A, 7th Texas Infantry Gates, Matthew, Co E, 30th Tennessee Infantry Gentry, H. D., Co C, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Gollahar, John P., Co B, 30th Tennessee Infantry Gray, Sgt. L., Co C, 7th Texas Infantry Grissom, John, Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Hackney, William F., Co B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Hagan, J. E., Co E, 30th Tennessee Infantry Harrison, G. R., Co I, 7th Texas Infantry Haygood, George W., Co G, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Hearn, James E., Co E, 7th Texas Infantry Hobbs, C. C., Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Hobbs, Elijah, Co G, 7th Texas Infantry Holt, D. J., Co A, 30th Tennessee Infantry Hudson, James S., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Hyde, Sgt. James, Co F, 10th Tennessee Infantry Jackson, Thomas L., Co G, 3rd Tennessee Infantry James, Benjamin, Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Johnson, J. M,, Co B, 7th Texas Infantry Johnson, Sgt. S. M., Co E, 7th Texas Infantry Kennedy, D., Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Kidd, 2nd Lt. John C., Co A, 7th Texas Infantry Lane, Joseph E., Co H, 50th Tennessee Infantry Hobbs, C. C., Co K, 7th Texas Infantry Hobbs, Elijah, Co G, 7th Texas Infantry Holt, D. J., Co A, 30th Tennessee Infantry Hudson, James S., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Hyde, Sgt. James, Co F, 10th Tennessee Infantry Jackson, Thomas L., Co G, 3rd Tennessee Infantry James, Benjamin, Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Johnson, J. M,, Co B, 7th Texas Infantry Johnson, Sgt. S. M., Co E, 7th Texas Infantry Kennedy, D., Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Kidd, 2nd Lt. John C., Co A, 7th Texas Infantry Lane, Joseph E., Co H, 50th Tennessee Infantry Latham, Starlin, Co I, 7th Texas Infantry Lawrence, Richard, Co C, 7th Texas Infantry Levins, Michael, Co D, 10th Tennessee Infantry Little, C. Frank, Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Lockett, William, Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Malcy, J.C. , Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Martin, Darby, Co C, 10th Tennessee Infantry Martin, Felix G., Co B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Mash, William R., Co E, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Maxey, J. C., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry May, Thomas B., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry McAlester, N.A., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry McClaude, Sgt. John S., Co G, 30th Tennessee Infantry McElwane, Pvt. Richard C, Co F, 54th Alabama Infantry Milliard, F. M., Co F, 50th Tennessee Infantry Morgan, Loveless D., Co C, 7th Texas Infantry Neal, Robert E., Co G, 7th Texas Infantry Nelson, Bethel H., Co D, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Orr, Sgt. James B., Co H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Owens, Stephen, Co B, 7th Texas Infantry Parker, William R., Co K, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Peavyhouse, Francis M., Co C, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Peavyhouse, Jasper N., Co C, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Penn, William, Co E, 1st Tennessee Infantry Pitts, Corp. William H., Co K, 30th Tennessee Infantry Reid, Corp. Alexander, Co K, 37th Mississippi Infantry Reynolds, W. D., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Rheney, Pvt. William C., Co C, 57th Georgia Infantry Rittenburg, 2nd Lt. D. M., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Roberts, Thomas, Co H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Rodgers, J. T., Co H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Ruyle, William A., Co A, 7th Texas Infantry Scoggin, Benjamin T., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Sharp, J. G., Co C, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Simpson, Thomas P., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Smith, Maj. William H., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Spivey, Benjamin, Co A, 1st Tennessee Infantry Stanbury, Corp. Robert N. S., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Swords, J. K., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Taylor, Lt. William J., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Taylor, Corp. J. R., Co E, 3rd Tennessee Walker, Henry R., Co H, 7th Texas Infantry Walker, Sgt. N.G., Co E, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Walton, J. W., Co F, 50th Tennessee Infantry White, Pvt. Enoch, Co E, 40th Georgia Infantry White, 1st Lt. A. H., Co I, 7th Texas Infantry Williams, Corp. Horace, Co F, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Wilson, Edward O. Jr., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Wilson, J. W., Co B, 7th Texas Infantry Woodson, Sgt. William, Jr., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Yokeley, S. L., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry
Civil War Battles during 1863:
May 1-Battle of Port Gibson(Miss)
May 1-4-Battle of Chancellorsville(VA)
May 12-Battle of Raymond(Miss)
May 18-July 4-Seige of Vicksburg(Miss)
July 1-3- Battle of Gettysburg
September 19-20-Battle of Chickamauga(GA)
November 24-25-Battles of Lookout Mounatin and Missionary Ridge(TN)
More About Henry William Boney: Burial: 1863, Confederate Cemetery, Raymond, Hinds County, Mississippi.39 Died 2: May 12, 1863, Raymond, Mississippi.39 Fact 1 (2): 1863, Died in battle of Raymond.39
More About Henry William Boney and Sallie Caroline Trimble: Marriage 1: August 12, 1847, St Francis County, Arkanas.40 Marriage 2: August 12, 1847, St. Francis, Arkanas.41
Children of Henry William Boney and Sallie Caroline Trimble are:
Henry William Boney (b. August 25, 1825, d. May 12, 1863)
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