to reach this tomb, go down the river entrance steps, then go to the right around the steps, and carefully follow the creek upstream. This tomb is in the side of the hill, quite aways up. be careful, snakes are known to be in this area.

This tomb is across the creek from the more famous tombs of the Ziegler and Washington families.∼Father: Dr. Creed Woodson (1801-1857)
Mother: Mary Laurence Cook (1815-1890)
10/10/1850 - Farmer, Houston Co., GA (living with his father and sibs - indexed as "Phillip Woodson")
1852 - Attended, Emory College, Oxford, GA (from: Houston Co., GA)
1853-1855 - Attended, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
1855 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Wilna, Houston Co., GA; preceptor: Dr. Woodson; thesis: "Typhous Pneumonia")
02/07/1857 - Father, Creed, died in Houston Co., GA
01/01/1862 - Signed a contract as an Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician) from Texas with Capt. J. Henry Rives [VA Light Artillery] at a Camp Neabsco near Dumfries, VA, to provide medical services to the Confederate States
Army for $80/mo.
02/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Rive's Battery [VA Light Artillery] , Texas Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac
03/30/1862 - Tendered resignation from the Texas Brigade
04/00/1862 - Acting Surgeon, Nelson Light Artillery
07/21/1862 - Ran the following advertisement in the Daily Dispatch, Richmond, VA, "I have a fine riding horse, bridle and saddle for sale on reasonable terms. They can be seen by calling on me at Dunlop & Moncure Hospital, in the rear of American Hotel, P. T. Woodson"
08/28/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 19, ["3rd Georgia Hospital"] Richmond, VA
10/01/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 19, Richmond, VA
12/07/1862 - In a note to the Surgeon in Charge, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA, "Sir, There was a patient ordered to your hospital last night by the Medical Director and the driver failed to find the place. The patient was received here without ____ his condition. If you ___ ___ conveyance, please send for him at as early an hour as possible. P. T. Woodson, Act. Asst. Surgeon, Genl Hospital No. 19, 24th & Franklin St. [Richmond, Virginia]"
12/22/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 19, Richmond, VA
01/19/1863 - “Assistant Surgeon P. T. Woodson will report to Surgeon W. A. Carrington, acting medical director of General G. W. Smith’s command, for assignment to duty. [S.O. 15/2]
01/20/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered by the Surgeon General to report to the 3rd NC Artillery Battalion
01/23/1863 - Transferred from Gen. Hospital No. 19, Richmond, VA to Brig. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting's Command
01/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Wilmington, NC
02/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Wilmington, NC
03/01/1863 - As Acting Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, submitted a requisition for a two horse ambulance and 2 halters for the ambulance horses
03/11/1863 - Asst. Surgeon 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Wilmington, NC
06/10/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 01/15/1863
08/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Wilmington, NC
10/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Wilmington, NC
12/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Kenansville, Duplin Co., NC
01/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Kenansville, Duplin Co., NC
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from TX by the Confederate States Senate
04/04/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Kenansville, Duplin Co., NC
05/21/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Kenansville, Duplin Co., NC
06/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion, Kenansville, Duplin Co., NC
08/05/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Maj. Moore's Command (3rd NC Artillery Battalion)
01/02/1865 - Asst. Surgeon
01/13/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd NC Artillery Battalion
05/01/1865 - Paroled by the U.S. Army, Greensboro, NC
05/16/1865 - Married, Lauretta C. "Lou" Houston (b~1841, Duplin Co., NC)
1866 - Moved to Montgomery Co., TX
07/23/1867 - Registered to vote, Montgomery Co., TX
07/01/1870 - Practiced medicine, Montgomery, Montgomery Co., TX (lived with his wife, Lou C. one child, and Jim Woodson, a 13 y.o. black "domestic servant" - indexed as Philip T. Woodson)
04/00/1876 - Died in Florida (buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, GA)
06/00/1885 - A Mrs. T. P. Woodson lived with her father, A.O. Pickens, Calhoun Co., FL
07/17/1890 - Mother, Mary, died in Montgomery Co., TX

Note: Dr. Philip Tscharner Woodson was a brother of Dr. Miller Alexander Woodson who also served the Confederacy in a medical capacity.

Michael Angelo and Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/24/2016. Unpublished database.