Daniel A. Wood

A 16 year old farm boy on his father's place at Retreat in Grimes County, he enlisted there as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861 and was appointed First Corporal by September 1862.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, but had been captured.

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange, and was back with his Company by November 1862. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 4 February 1863 and was captured again, on the Nansamond River at Suffolk, VA in April or May 1863, and exchanged at Fortress Monroe, VA about 13 May. By April 1864 he was 3rd Sergeant, but was a Private again in June. He was wounded in the neck and leg on 6 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA and more severely in the leg on 29 September 1864. He was in hospitals in Richmond then furloughed for 30 days on 24 October with no later military record.

He was Sheriff of Grimes County, TX from 1876 to 1882.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from the US Census for 1850 and 1860.

c. 1844 in TX