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Confederate (CSV)

Private

A. H. Wood

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26 he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was elected Brevet 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant on 10 January 1863 and 2nd Lieutenant in May but was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was afterward absent in hospitals and on furloughs (to Spartanburg, SC and Griffin, GA) to 19 October 1864 when he was retired to the Invalid Corps.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Polley 3 says he was killed at Chickamauga, GA in 1863, as A.H. Woods.

Birth

c. 1835

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1754]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26853]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 322 [AotW citation 26854]

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