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Federal (USV)

Private

Lorenzo Dow Wood

(1841 - 1929)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

He moved from New York to Dodge County, WI with his family before 1850. From Waupun, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds on 25 November 1862. He enlisted again, on 22 November 1863, as a Private in Company E, 32nd Wisconsin Infantry, and was wounded again, by a gunshot in June 1864, place not found. He was discharged for wounds on 22 May 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a laborer living with his parents back in Waupun, WI. At the 1890 US Veterans Census he was in Johnstown in Brown County, NE and he was a stock raiser there to at least 1900. In 1920 he was a boarder living with the Albert Tatro family in Johnstown.

References & notes

His service from Bryant1 and the State Roster.2 Antietam wound detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1870, 1900, & 1920.

He married Ellen A. Chandler (1848-) in July 1867.

Birth

01/20/1841; Cattaraugus County, NY

Death

09/21/1929; Brown County, NE

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15229]

2 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. 2, pg. 486 [AotW citation 15248]

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