John H. Boyle

Captain John Henry Boyle was an officer of the Confederate Army who found himself in conflict with the law on several occasions, being arrested or captured at least five times and eventually being named as a suspect in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at war's end.

During the 1860 election, Boyle had been accused of voter suppression alongside George Baden, William Berry and James Judson Jarboe. Jarboe was later named by Rev. William A. Evans as exiting the Surratt boardinghouse some months before at the same time Dr. Mudd was seen entering it - although Jarboe denied ever having been there.

On Jan 20 1863, Boyle had been captured in-uniform at his mother's house in Marlborough, Maryland, and spent five months in the Old Brick Capitol prison awaiting possible execution. On May 19, 1863, he was part of a prisoner exchange, and shortly found himself in the Battle of Gettysburg under Gnl George H. Steuart, who named Boyle in dispatches, ''"and Mr. John H. Boyle, volunteer aide--I am greatly indebted for valuable assistance rendered, and of whose gallant bearing I cannot too highly make mention"''. Provided by Wikipedia