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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Manuel Woodring

(1845 - 1904)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 25th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 8 younger siblings on their farm in Jackson County, NC. He enlisted in Webster, NC on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 25th North Carolina Infantry as a substitute for James Watson.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was paroled there on 6 November. He was back with his company by December 1862 and was with them to at least February 1864, afterward on furlough with no later military record.

After the War

In 1900 he was a farm worker at Hamilton in Skagit County, WA.

He died from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a blow from a club he suffered in a fight over payment for work he had done.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his marker has his dates from 1847-1904.

Birth

04/30/1845; Jackson County, NC

Death

11/25/1904; Hamilton, WA; burial in Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, WA

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 34326]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #13 [AotW citation 34327]

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