Vignette bust view of James A. Boice wearing a dark frock coat with 1^st Lieutenant of Staff shoulder straps.

Image is clear with excellent contrast. Bottom of mount has a very nice period ink signature “TRULY YOURS J. S. BOICE, ASST. SURG. U.S.A.”

Reverse has several modern pencil notations, one states that the image is from an album belonging to the famous Mary Walker. Reverse looks as though the image was once taped or pasted into an album.

James A. Boice was appointed assistant surgeon of the 103^rd U. S. Colored Troops on March 1, 1865 at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Records do not show his discharge date.

Surgeon Boice died February 11, 1889. His obituary, which appeared in the Nebraska State Journal on February 13, 1889, states;

“DR. JAMES A. BOICE, A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OF CRETE, DIED SUDDENLY OF HEART DISEASE NIGHT BEFORE LAST AT DEXTER, IA., WHERE HE WAS VISSITING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. THE DOCTOR WAS ABOUT SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE. HE WAS BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA, RESIDED SEVERAL YEARS IN ILLINOIS AND IN NEBRASKA FOR THE PAST TWELVE YEARS. HE SERVED AS SURGEON IN THE REGULAR ARMY PRIOR TO AND DURING THE WAR AND WAS STATIONED AT FORT PULASKI IN CHARGE OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. THE DOCTOR WAS SECRETARY OF THE MASONIC LODGE AT CRETE. A COMMITTEE OF MASONIC BRETHEREN WILL ACCOMPANY THE REMAINS FROM DEXTER TO COUNCIL BLUFFS, WHERE THEY WILL BE RECEIVED BY A COMMITTEE OF HIS OWN LODGE…”

Dr. Boice was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Crete, Nebraska.  [ad]

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