Born: April 4, 1832
Birthplace: Fort Snelling in Minnesota
Father: Robert Crooke Wood Sr. 1801 - 1869
(Buried: Cold Springs Cemetery Lockport New York)
Mother: Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood 1811 - 1875
(Buried: Thought to be buried somewhere in Germany)
Wife: Wilhelmina Maria Trist Wood 1838 - 1914
Children:
Richard Taylor Wood 1858 - 1870
Nina Sarah Wood 1860 -
Marie Wood 1862 -
Robert C. Wood III 1866 -
Bringier Trist Wood 1868 - 1949
His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor
Uncle by Marriage was President Jefferson Davis
Education:
Attended Kentucky Military Institute
Attended St. Mary’s College
1850 - 1853: Attended West Point Military Academy
Occupation before War
1855 – 1858: Served in U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry as Lt.
1860: Lived with his father in Washington D.C.
Civil War Career:
1861: Captain in Confederate States Regular Army
1861: Assistant Adjutant General to General Braxton Bragg Pensacola
1861: Resigned his rank as Captain on October 15, 1861
1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of Adam’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1862: Captured in Lebanon Tennessee on May 5, 1862
1862: Prisoner of War held at Johnson’s Island Prison
1862: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange in September of 1862
1863 – 1865: Colonel of Wood’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1864 – 1865: Acted as Brigade Commander of Mississippi Cavalry
1864: Commander of Central Sub – District of Mississippi
1865: Paroled in Jackson Mississippi on May 17, 1865
Occupation after War:
Planter in Louisiana
Secretary of New Orleans Louisiana City Council
Businessman in Columbia and other cities
President of Gatling Gun Company in Buffalo New York
Died: December 4, 1900
Place of Death: New Orleans Louisiana
Age at time of Death: 68 years old
Burial Place: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Louisiana
Lt. General William Hardee once was quoted as saying the following about Colonel Wood. “A brave, active and intelligent officer”
Colonel Wood’s Brother was Colonel John Taylor Wood
West Point graduate 1854, US 2nd Cavalry, posted to Texas frontier, resigned in 1858. Confederate Sates of America military service as General Bragg's Chief of Staff. Son of Robert Crooke Wood, brother of John Taylor Wood, grandson of Zacary Taylor, related by marriage to Jefferson Davis who was his uncle.
Birthplace: Fort Snelling in Minnesota
Father: Robert Crooke Wood Sr. 1801 - 1869
(Buried: Cold Springs Cemetery Lockport New York)
Mother: Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood 1811 - 1875
(Buried: Thought to be buried somewhere in Germany)
Wife: Wilhelmina Maria Trist Wood 1838 - 1914
Children:
Richard Taylor Wood 1858 - 1870
Nina Sarah Wood 1860 -
Marie Wood 1862 -
Robert C. Wood III 1866 -
Bringier Trist Wood 1868 - 1949
His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor
Uncle by Marriage was President Jefferson Davis
Education:
Attended Kentucky Military Institute
Attended St. Mary’s College
1850 - 1853: Attended West Point Military Academy
Occupation before War
1855 – 1858: Served in U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry as Lt.
1860: Lived with his father in Washington D.C.
Civil War Career:
1861: Captain in Confederate States Regular Army
1861: Assistant Adjutant General to General Braxton Bragg Pensacola
1861: Resigned his rank as Captain on October 15, 1861
1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of Adam’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1862: Captured in Lebanon Tennessee on May 5, 1862
1862: Prisoner of War held at Johnson’s Island Prison
1862: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange in September of 1862
1863 – 1865: Colonel of Wood’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1864 – 1865: Acted as Brigade Commander of Mississippi Cavalry
1864: Commander of Central Sub – District of Mississippi
1865: Paroled in Jackson Mississippi on May 17, 1865
Occupation after War:
Planter in Louisiana
Secretary of New Orleans Louisiana City Council
Businessman in Columbia and other cities
President of Gatling Gun Company in Buffalo New York
Died: December 4, 1900
Place of Death: New Orleans Louisiana
Age at time of Death: 68 years old
Burial Place: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Louisiana
Lt. General William Hardee once was quoted as saying the following about Colonel Wood. “A brave, active and intelligent officer”
Colonel Wood’s Brother was Colonel John Taylor Wood
West Point graduate 1854, US 2nd Cavalry, posted to Texas frontier, resigned in 1858. Confederate Sates of America military service as General Bragg's Chief of Staff. Son of Robert Crooke Wood, brother of John Taylor Wood, grandson of Zacary Taylor, related by marriage to Jefferson Davis who was his uncle.
Born: April 4, 1832
Birthplace: Fort Snelling in Minnesota
Father: Robert Crooke Wood Sr. 1801 - 1869
(Buried: Cold Springs Cemetery Lockport New York)
Mother: Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood 1811 - 1875
(Buried: Thought to be buried somewhere in Germany)
Wife: Wilhelmina Maria Trist Wood 1838 - 1914
Children:
Richard Taylor Wood 1858 - 1870
Nina Sarah Wood 1860 -
Marie Wood 1862 -
Robert C. Wood III 1866 -
Bringier Trist Wood 1868 - 1949
His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor
Uncle by Marriage was President Jefferson Davis
Education:
Attended Kentucky Military Institute
Attended St. Mary’s College
1850 - 1853: Attended West Point Military Academy
Occupation before War
1855 – 1858: Served in U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry as Lt.
1860: Lived with his father in Washington D.C.
Civil War Career:
1861: Captain in Confederate States Regular Army
1861: Assistant Adjutant General to General Braxton Bragg Pensacola
1861: Resigned his rank as Captain on October 15, 1861
1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of Adam’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1862: Captured in Lebanon Tennessee on May 5, 1862
1862: Prisoner of War held at Johnson’s Island Prison
1862: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange in September of 1862
1863 – 1865: Colonel of Wood’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1864 – 1865: Acted as Brigade Commander of Mississippi Cavalry
1864: Commander of Central Sub – District of Mississippi
1865: Paroled in Jackson Mississippi on May 17, 1865
Occupation after War:
Planter in Louisiana
Secretary of New Orleans Louisiana City Council
Businessman in Columbia and other cities
President of Gatling Gun Company in Buffalo New York
Died: December 4, 1900
Place of Death: New Orleans Louisiana
Age at time of Death: 68 years old
Burial Place: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Louisiana
Lt. General William Hardee once was quoted as saying the following about Colonel Wood. “A brave, active and intelligent officer”
Colonel Wood’s Brother was Colonel John Taylor Wood
West Point graduate 1854, US 2nd Cavalry, posted to Texas frontier, resigned in 1858. Confederate Sates of America military service as General Bragg's Chief of Staff. Son of Robert Crooke Wood, brother of John Taylor Wood, grandson of Zacary Taylor, related by marriage to Jefferson Davis who was his uncle.
Birthplace: Fort Snelling in Minnesota
Father: Robert Crooke Wood Sr. 1801 - 1869
(Buried: Cold Springs Cemetery Lockport New York)
Mother: Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood 1811 - 1875
(Buried: Thought to be buried somewhere in Germany)
Wife: Wilhelmina Maria Trist Wood 1838 - 1914
Children:
Richard Taylor Wood 1858 - 1870
Nina Sarah Wood 1860 -
Marie Wood 1862 -
Robert C. Wood III 1866 -
Bringier Trist Wood 1868 - 1949
His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor
Uncle by Marriage was President Jefferson Davis
Education:
Attended Kentucky Military Institute
Attended St. Mary’s College
1850 - 1853: Attended West Point Military Academy
Occupation before War
1855 – 1858: Served in U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry as Lt.
1860: Lived with his father in Washington D.C.
Civil War Career:
1861: Captain in Confederate States Regular Army
1861: Assistant Adjutant General to General Braxton Bragg Pensacola
1861: Resigned his rank as Captain on October 15, 1861
1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of Adam’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1862: Captured in Lebanon Tennessee on May 5, 1862
1862: Prisoner of War held at Johnson’s Island Prison
1862: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange in September of 1862
1863 – 1865: Colonel of Wood’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1864 – 1865: Acted as Brigade Commander of Mississippi Cavalry
1864: Commander of Central Sub – District of Mississippi
1865: Paroled in Jackson Mississippi on May 17, 1865
Occupation after War:
Planter in Louisiana
Secretary of New Orleans Louisiana City Council
Businessman in Columbia and other cities
President of Gatling Gun Company in Buffalo New York
Died: December 4, 1900
Place of Death: New Orleans Louisiana
Age at time of Death: 68 years old
Burial Place: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Louisiana
Lt. General William Hardee once was quoted as saying the following about Colonel Wood. “A brave, active and intelligent officer”
Colonel Wood’s Brother was Colonel John Taylor Wood
West Point graduate 1854, US 2nd Cavalry, posted to Texas frontier, resigned in 1858. Confederate Sates of America military service as General Bragg's Chief of Staff. Son of Robert Crooke Wood, brother of John Taylor Wood, grandson of Zacary Taylor, related by marriage to Jefferson Davis who was his uncle.
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