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Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton
1835–1905
A Civil War officer, Medal of Honor recipient, and influential journalist, he also helped shape how Americans remember the war through battlefield preservation. His writing drew on firsthand military experience and a lifelong interest in public service and history.
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Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888.
by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton
About the author
Born in Massachusetts in 1835, Henry Van Ness Boynton served in the Union Army during the Civil War and was badly wounded at Missionary Ridge, where his actions later earned him the Medal of Honor. He returned to national service again during the Spanish-American War and reached the rank of brigadier general.
After the Civil War, he became a Washington journalist and was long associated with the Cincinnati Commercial. He was also deeply involved in preserving Civil War battlefields, especially at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, helping turn those places into lasting public memorials.
Boynton died in 1905, but his legacy reaches beyond the battlefield. He is remembered both as a soldier and as a writer who helped record, interpret, and preserve the history of the war for later generations.