Wiley Henry Wood

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with 4 Munday children ages 6 to 15 at Reform in Pickens County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 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.

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1870 he was a farm worker, probably on his father-in-law Shapleigh Echols' place, at Dadeville in Tallapoosa County, AL but in 1870 he was farming next door to the Echols in Crawford County, AR. By 1880 he was a farmer in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory; the IT became part of the new state of Oklahoma in 1907 and he had retired at Hillsboro in Grady County, OK by 1910.

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 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Echols (1857-1874) in October 1869 and they had 2 children. He married again, Sarah Catherine Davis (1850-1919) and they had 5 children between 1877 and 1889.

04/1840 in AL

1917; Grady County, OK; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Grady County, OK