Person:David Woods (12)

Information form database of Peter J Kuhn, RootsWeb, WorldConnect: Came to Marion, Alabama, with his parents in 1848. He enlisted as a private in Company K, Eleventh Alabama Infantry, in June, 1861, and served in that regiment in the first campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia. Having fallen a victim to pneumonia, and being a mere youth, he was discharged. Soon after reaching home he re-enlisted in Company E, Forty-first Alabama Infantry, and served as first sergeant of his company in the Army of the Cumberland under General Bragg from his retreat from Kentucky in 1862 to the battle of Chickamauga. He was promoted to second lieutenant in the army of the Gulf, and served in that department up to the fall of Fort Gains and Mobile Bay, when, on the 8th of August, 1864, he surrendered, with his company, which he had commanded during the engagement about the Bay and Dauphin Island, and for about five months was in prison at New Orleans and Ship Island. He was exchanged in time to participate in the closing scenes of the great war in and about Mobile, Alabama.

In 1872 he moved to Texas, and entered the field of civil and hydraulic engineering, and assisted in the construction of many of the large railway systems and irrigation canals in Texas and Mexico. Mr Woods was never married.

1. ↑ Peter J Kuhn - cs4peter at hotmail.com. Edelen, McAfee, Gulick and Associated Families - database.