Career
He was honored with the award on 8 July 1896. Boody was born in Limington, Maine on 6 March 1836. He joined the army from Amesbury, Massachusetts in June 1861.
He was commissioned as an officer in September 1863, and was mustered out in July 1864.
Boody died on 22 October 1913 and his remains are interred in the Greenwood Cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts.