Manning A WOOD

• Name	Manning A WOOD  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1838  [1]
  Gender	Unknown
  Birth	Abt 1841  [2]
  Military	1 Jan 1862  [3]
  	CSA: Company C, 22nd South Carolina Infantry at Columbia, SouthCarolina
  Death	26 Dec 1864	Union POW at Elimira, New York   [3]
  	Cause: Typhoid Pneumonia
  Person ID	I421	Wood-Lester
  Last Modified	17 May 2024

  
  

  Father	William Jackson WOOD,   b. 1790, Spartanburg County, SC d. Bef 1870, Spartanburg County, SC (Age < 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mahala JOHNSON,   b. Abt 1801   d. Spartanburg County, SC
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1826
  Family ID	F4419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Manning Wood (1838-1864), Prisoner of War Record Son of William Jackson Wood and Mahala Johnson

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone: Manning A. Wood (c1838-1864)

  
  

• Notes

  Manning A. Wood enlisted as a Private in Company C, 22nd South Carolina Infantry on January 1, 1862 at Columbia, South Carolina. He was wounded at the Battle of Boonsboro Gap, Maryland on September 14, 1862 and was admitted to Hospital #8 in Richmond, Virginia on September 28, 1862 with a gunshot wound to the leg. He was detailed as a teamster in the Quartermaster Department on December 22, 1862 by the order of Brigadier General Ripley. He was absent without leave from September 6, 1863 through October 15, 1863. He was left in New Bern, North Carolina sick and fell into the hands of the enemy on May 6, 1864. He was sent to Fortress Monroe, Virginia and arrived on May 18, 1864. He was forwarded to Point Lookout yankee prison, Maryland and was then transferred to Elmira yankee prison, New York on August 15, 1864 and died at Elmira on December 26, 1864 of typhoid pneumonia. He is buried in Woodlawn National Cemetery in grave #1257. Source: John T. Nash, 6th great grandson of Capt. William Wood, Jr.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Robert Darious Wood, Sr and J Glenn Wood, "Our Time In History: This Wood and Lester Family", File 127A.txt. [S267] Judy Canant, Rootsweb Post - 0923164595, (Name: Name: Name: 3 Apr 1999;Location:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/SCLAUREN/1999-04/0923164595;;;). [S243] Research of John T. Nash, 6th great grandson of Capt. William Wood, Jr. Union Prisoner of War Document Register No. 2 Page 226