Miles WOOD - Union Soldier
Miles WOOD - Union Soldier
| Miles Wood was the son of James
O'Kelly Wood and Mary Polly Jones. Miles enlisted in the UnionArmy
at Hickory Grove, Tennessee on June 5, 1862. (One record states Hickory
Grove, Kentucky, but more than likely it was Tennessee.) He enlisted for
a three-year term and on the Company Descriptive Book it lists him as being
5� 8� tall with a fair complexion, gray eyes and light hair. On his military
records there are three ages that are given for him. Two of them agree
with a date of him being born in 1818 and the third would indicate he was
born in 1816. The records also state that he was born in Williamson County,
Tennessee. He mustered in at Hickory Grove in Company A, 1st Reg�t, West
Tennessee Infantry. Company subsequently became Co. I, 6 Reg�t Tenn., Cavalry.
His military records indicated that he served as a 2nd Lieutenant from
June of 1862 until Special Order No. 283 discharged him in September 1864
in Memphis.
Submitted by Kathy Faul |
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