David C. Boone (1823 - 1863)

Born 1823 in Alabama [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 13 Dec 1863 at about age 40 in East Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Private D. C. Boone served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1862
Mustered out: Died while POW
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Phelan's Battery, Alabama

Was in an Alabama regiment, but may have been born in Kentucky

Was a Confederate Recruiter in Southeast Missouri, captured and taken to Alton Prison in Illinois, where he died of typhus and is buried in Alton Confederate Cemetery in East Alton, Illinois

David was born about 1823. He joined the CSA military in 1862. He was arrested (not captured) in September 1863 and taken to the Alton Military Prison, where he was sentenced for his crime and died in December of that year of typhus. His name is on the monument at the Alton Confederate Cemetery.

Records below sometimes refer to Daniel rather than David. Not certain which is relevant; there may have been a tendency to write down the familiar (Daniel).

Sources

• DC Boone's father is Our Brick wall
• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:29NZ-LZF : 4 November 2017), David C Boon and Rhoda C Smith, 30 Sep 1846; citing Marshall, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 2,203,711.
• "Alabama Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXK1-LS5 : 27 November 2014), Daniel C. Boone, 1862; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M311 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1961), roll 80.
• "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS79-Q4W : 4 December 2014), Daniel C. Boone, Private, Company , Phelan's Company, Alabama Light Artillery, Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M374 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 5; FHL microfilm 821,953.
• Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 [microform]. U.S. War Department. Published 1965. NARA publication M598 Roll 13, page 216
• "United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1W-Y6XH : 16 March 2018), D C Boone, 13 Dec 1863; citing Death, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, p. 4, NARA microfilm publication M918 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 1,024,456.
• Find-a-grave #16207466