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Hugh P. Boon (1865)

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This captain with the 1st West Virginia Cavalry captured a Confederate flag at Sailors Creek, Virginia, on 6 April 1865.

He was born and died in Washington, Pennsylvania (1831-1908). Before and after the war, he worked as a grocer and then became a farmer. He later clerked for the "A. B. Caldwell store."

Hugh P. Boon (1865)