Brigadier-General William Robertson Boggs (March 18, 1829 – September 11, 1911) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

At the age of twenty in July 1849, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point as a cadet from Georgia.

To them were born five children–William R., Jr., a mining engineer who was murdered in Mexico in 1907; Elizabeth McCaw, John Symington, Edith Allston, and Henry Patterson Boggs.

On December 14, 1859, he took part in an engagement with Cortina's Mexican marauders near Fort Brown, for which he was given honorable mention by General Winfield Scott.

Early in the war, Boggs was appointed by Governor Joseph E. Brown as the purchasing agent to procure arms, ammunition, and supplies for Georgia's state troops.

In recognition of his efforts in constructing the fortifications that defended Savannah, Georgia, one of the earthworks was named Fort Boggs.

During the Kentucky campaign, Colonel Boggs, by then back in the Confederate national service, won the confidence of his superiors.

[7] After the war, Boggs engaged in the profession of engineering, participating to a great extent in railroad construction in the West.

One of his colleagues wrote, "He was highly valued by his associates as a man of force and culture; was esteemed by the student body as an attractive and honest teacher; by the people of the community as an upright, genial, agreeable gentleman.