Civil War - Enlisted and mustered in on 8 December 1863 at Chesterfield, Essex County, New York, Company G, 118th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment for a 3-year terms; mustered out on 26 November 1864 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Case 982. — Incised wound of knee. — Private R. Moody, Co. G, 118th New York, aged 24 years, entered Turner's Lane Hospital. Philadelphia, May 23, 1864, and was discharged for disability seven months afterwards. Acting Assistant Surgeon W. W. Keen, jr., contributed the following history of the case : " The patient had been struck by an axe in the right leg. just below the patella, during the fall of 1862. The axe severed the ligamentum patella, but he states that no synovia escaped and but very little blood. He was sick in bed for five months and then got up, having no anchylosis and the great primary swelling having disappeared. In December, 1863, he enlisted in the army, having good use of the limb, though he could not run nor walk rapidly without care, he states that within the last six weeks the patella has been drawn upward, and that before then it had almost kept its normal position. He now constantly requires a cane and cannot extend the limb by the quadriceps muscle. No anchylosis exists." ... Some years after his discharge the man claimed a pension for disability from diarrhoea, etc., alleged to have originated in the service. and was inspected by Examining Surgeon T. C. Noyes, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who in connection with the case mentioned the condition of the injured limb on August 19, 1880, as follows: "I find the right thigh atrophied from hip to knee, with slight paralysis. Its size above the knee is three inches smaller than the left, somewhat weaker, and uncertain in movement." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.

First married Hester Ann Abbott. They had at least 3 children: Benjamin (1862-1955), Mary (1862-1904), and William Lynus (b. 1864). It appears Hester died after 1880, but no information has been found.

Next married Frances (Carr) Turner on 22 Oct 1903 at the Wisconsin Veterans Home. This was her third marriage. They were residents of the Home, where both of them died.