Boatwright, John

Confederate soldier of South Carolina and son of Columbia, S.C., mayor John Henry Boatwright; the U.S. Census of 1860 identifies seventeen-year-old John L. Boatwright as a resident of Columbia and a cadet enrolled at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.). In 1863, Boatwright married Anne Pendleton Taliaferro in Orange County, Va.

From the description of Letter, 1863 May 13 (Savannah, Ga.) to Anne Taliaferro Boatwright (Columbia, S.C.) (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 696787761