Richard Wood

In 1860 he was an unmarried 15 year old farmer living with his widowed mother, 6 siblings, and 3 slaves on their farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. Giving his age as 19, he enlisted in Coosa County on 2 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

Except for brief periods of illness, he was with his company to the nearly the end of the war. He was paroled at Montgomery, AL on 18 May 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer in Shelby County, AL but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a merchant/grocer in Childersburg, Talladega County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Chancellor (1845-after 1880) in November 1867 and they had at least 4 children. He married again, Laura Potts Rawdon (1853-1931) and they had 3 sons between 1880 and 1889.

12/01/1844; Coosa County, AL

01/19/1901; Childersburg, AL; burial in Childersburg Cemetery, Childersburg, AL