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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Newton B. Wood

(1843 - 1887)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Liberty, he enlisted in Company H, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 29 August 1861. Promoted to Corporal.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Captured in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. Mustered out of service on 24 May 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Life dates from family genealogists.

Birth

08/13/1843; Malone, NY

Death

08/02/1887

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 566 - 568 [AotW citation 10651]

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