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"Wood"
(1832 - 1910)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer at Monticello in Shelby County, AL. He enlisted at Shelby Springs on 19 March 1862 and mustered as 5th Sergeant of Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 24 October 1862. He was back with his unit by January 1863. He was captured in battle at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, TN on 28 October 1863. He was held at Nashville, sent to Louisville, KY on 3 November, and on to Camp Morton, IN the next day. He was transferred to Fort Delaware on 19 March 1864 and arrived there on the 22nd. He took an oath of allegiance there on 17 June 1865 and was released.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Lee County, MS. He had retired there by 1910, and lived with his son Walter and family.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.
He married Ellen Elmda Vansant (1833-1910) in May 1854 and they had 5 children.
Birth
10/1832 in AL
Death
1910; in MS
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31628]
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 31629]