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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Penuel G. Wood

(c. 1839 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farm hand living on the J.A. Butler farm at Nixburg in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September 1862 and was furloughed home for 30 days on 2 October. He was back in a Richmond hospital on 28 December and returned to duty on 10 January 1863. He died in camp at Guinea Station, VA on 25 February 1863, cause not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, also as Pennel G Wood, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Autauga County, AL

Death

02/25/1863; Guinea Station, VA; burial in Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA

Notes

1 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 33043]

2 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 33044]

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