 Henry V. Boynton

Henry Van Ness Boynton (June 22, 1835 – June 3, 1905) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Missionary Ridge.Returning to duty in 1898 during the Spanish–American War, Boynton was promoted to brigadier general.Boynton was born in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but was raised in Ohio where he graduated in 1854 from Woodward College, in Cincinnati, and subsequently from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1859.