JOHN LEE WOODS, JR., was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1, 1842; has been a miner and blacksmith. Enlisted November 20, 1861, in Company G of the 4th California Infantry, and served as a private; was on duty at Auburn, California, during the great flood, and later at Sutterville, where he received a serious injury which rendered him physically disqualified for further service, in consequence of which he was mustered out March 19, 1862; was previously wounded by Indian arrows during fights in Oregon and Montana. Comrade Woods is a member of Sumner Post, G.A.R., of Sacramento, California, where he resides.
(Ward, William H. Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, with a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. San Francisco, 1886; pg 291)
JOHN LEE WOODS, JR., was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1, 1842; has been a miner and blacksmith. Enlisted November 20, 1861, in Company G of the 4th California Infantry, and served as a private; was on duty at Auburn, California, during the great flood, and later at Sutterville, where he received a serious injury which rendered him physically disqualified for further service, in consequence of which he was mustered out March 19, 1862; was previously wounded by Indian arrows during fights in Oregon and Montana. Comrade Woods is a member of Sumner Post, G.A.R., of Sacramento, California, where he resides.
(Ward, William H. Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, with a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. San Francisco, 1886; pg 291)
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