(South Face)

Burwell Boykin,

a 15 year old

volunteer with the

South Carolina

Home Guard and

son of Col. Alexander

Hamilton Boykin,

fought at this site

defending his home

on April 18, 1865.

(East Face)

SC Home Guard

9th Ky Mi

53rd Ala. Cav.

(North Face)

1st Lt. E.L. Stevens,

54th Massachusetts

Infantry, last Federal

officer killed in the

Civil War, fell about

1/4 mile west of this

site April 18, 1865

during the Battle of

Boykin's Mill.

(West Face)

54th Mass. Inf.

25th OH Inf.

107th OH Inf.

32nd USCT

102nd USCT

4th Mass. Cav.

3rd NY Art.

1st NY Eng.

Marker is on Boykin Mill Road (State Road 28-2) near Boykin Road (State Route 261), on the left when traveling east.

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