Colonel Carl Boyd Carl Boyd was born January 24, 1879, in Adairsville and grew to manhood there. The boyhood of Carl Boyd was chiefly characterized by a spirit of friendliness that endeared him to everyone that knew him. He went to school in Adairsville and graduated from the United States Academy on June 11, 1903. He was appointed 2nd lieutenant and assigned to the 3rd cavalry at Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming. In September, 1905 he was assigned to Camp Stolsenburg, P. I.; in September, 1907 to Fort Clark, Texas; later, to Fort Sam Houston, to the Riding School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and back to the 3rd cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, where he was appointed 1st Lieutenant March 11, 1911. He represented the United States in the International Horse Show at Madison Square Garden that year. Later, he served in a mountain howitzer battery on the Mexican border, and in this hard service became personally acquainted with John J. Pershing. His special training for the great work of his life began when, in the summer of 1912, he was sent to France to review his French preparatory to being assigned as instructor in that language at the Academy. In 1913 he was sent back to France as an exchange military observer and attached to the 7th Regiment of Dragoons. When the World War began he was placed under the American ambassador at Paris and acted as military observer and military attache at that embassy. On July 1, 1916 he was appointed captain, and on August 5, 1917, major. When the United States entered the war he asked for active service; and, on his arrival in France, General John J. Pershing placed him on his personal staff. On October 12, 1917, he was appointed as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel, and was appointed lieutenant-colonel July 30, 1918. From the first he made himself the buffer which absorbed the thousand and one petty jars and annoyances to which his Chief was subjected. When some new matter came up Gen. Pershing's first words were: "Where is Boyd?" He accompanied the general on his important conferences with high officials of the allied nations. The value of his services was recognized by the French Government in the ward to him of the title of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. King Albert , in March, 1918 decorated him with the Belgian War Cross and conferred upon him the Order of Leopold. From general Pershing he received the Distinguished Service Medal. In February he was taken with influenza, and died on the 12th of February, 1919. He is buried in the American cemetery at Suresnes, France. In a cable to his to his mother Gen. Pershing said, "In the death of your son Carl, of pneumonia at Paris today, the government loses a gallant officer who has given throughout the war the most loyal and distinguished service. We at General Headquarters lose a tried and trusted companion, and I lose a faithful aide, counselor, and friend." Carl Boyd married in September, 1903 Miss Annie Peebles by whom there was one daughter, Anne Boyd. Mrs. Boyd is now Mrs. John R. Edle of Paris, France.

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