Jeremiah T. Boyle
| Jeremiah T. Boyle | |
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Brig. Gen. Jeremiah T. Boyle
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| Born |
May 22, 1818 Boyle County, Kentucky |
| Died | July 28, 1871 (aged 53) Louisville, Kentucky |
| Place of burial | Bellevue Cemetery, Danville, Kentucky |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/ |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861-1864 |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Commands held | District of Kentucky |
| Battles/wars |
American Civil War Battle of Shiloh |
| Other work | Lawyer, Railroad President |
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (May 22, 1818 – July 28, 1871) was a successful lawyer and noted abolitionist. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Boyle was born and raised in Mercer County (now Boyle County, Kentucky), and graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1838. He was the son of Judge and Chief Justice John Boyle, for whom Boyle County was named. He then studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He became a successful lawyer in Harrodsburg and Danville. Although a slave-owning Whig politically, he argued for a gradual emancipation of slaves as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1849.
He married Elizabeth Owsley Anderson of Garrard County and raised seven children. For a number of years, he was engaged in business with his brother-in-law, William Clayton Anderson, a former United States Congressman. Boyle supported the Constitutional Union Party in the election of 1860.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Boyle raised a brigade of infantry for service in the Union Army. He was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 19, 1861. After wintering his troops in Tennessee, he joined Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio and participated in the Battle of Shiloh.
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