George W. Woods

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his (widowed mother?) Lively Woods and tenant farmer James Riggs in Orange County, NC. He enlisted on 24 February 1862 in Hillsborough, NC and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry. He was detailed as Company Cook in June.

He was mortally wounded in the thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg and "left in [the] hands of the enemy."

If you see Mrs Woods tell her that her son George H. Woods is dead. He died in the hospital at Sharpsburg where we left him. One of the members of Co. B. in our Reg't who was left there with the wounded told me that he buried him there. He did not live long after the fight but we could not hear from him until these men came over and were exchanged."
- Lt. James A Graham, Co. G, 27th NC to his mother in Hillsorough, NC on 24 November 1862.

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The Graham letter quoted above in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

c. 1842; Orange County, NC

09/27/1862; Sharpsburg, MD