[1] Boody received the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action during the Battle of Williamsburg at Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Battle of Chancellorsville at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 5, 1862, and May 2, 1863.
It was while he was a sergeant in the 40th New York Infantry when he performed the two acts of gallantry for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
[4] Boody died on October 22, 1913, and his remains are interred in the Greenwood Cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
[3][5] This soldier, at Williamsburg, Virginia, then a corporal, at great personal risk, voluntarily saved the lives of and brought from the battlefield 2 wounded comrades.
A year later, at Chancellorsville, voluntarily, and at great personal risk, brought from the field of battle and saved the life of Capt.