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Confederate (CSA)

Captain

Charles Wood

(1836 - 1930)

Home State: Virginia

Education: U of Virginia, Virginia Military Institute

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Garland's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

He was appointed Lieutenant and aide-de-camp to General J.B. Grayson on 11 September 1861. He was commissioned Captain and Assistant Adjutant General to General Stevenson on 15 March 1862, then went to General Garland's staff in June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was assigned as Captain acting Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General to General Ripley in October 1862. He spent the rest of the War in Georgia and on the staff of General Manigault.

After the War

He was a lawyer in Albemarle County, VA, and later went to St. Louis, MO.

References & notes

Service from Krick.1

Birth

02/03/1836; Albemarle County, VA

Death

06/17/1930; Charlottesville, VA

Notes

1   Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 309  [AotW citation 17562]