Colonel Robert Crooke Wood, Jr. (CSA)

Add Our Family Tree link http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Col-Robert-Crooke-Wood-Jr/p297555 add link http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115572356 Robert Crooke Wood, Jr. is listed in R. Whitney Tucker;s "The Descendants of the Presidents", Delmar Printing Company, Charlotte, N.C. (1975) Chapter XII. Zachary Taylor, pages 103-104, Third generation, Descendant XII-8 ( Robert Crooke Wood, Jr., born at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, April 4, 1832; died in New Orleans December 4, 1900. Attended (USMA) West Point; Lt. Cavalry, USA., 1855-58. Colonel in the Confederate Army (Cavalry), 1861-65. Married Mary Wilhelmina Trist, daughter of Hore Browse and Rosella (Bringier) Trist of Ascension Parish, La., and neice of Myrthe Bringier who married Richard Taylor (XII-6); also of Nicholas Philip Trist (see III-12). Children: XII-27. J. Bringier Trist. XII-28. Mary Wilhelmina Trist. XII-29. Richard Taylor. Died young.. XII-30. Nina Sarah. Died young. XII-31. Marie Rosella. XII-32. Robert Crooke. Died young. XII-33. Zachary Taylor.)

Col Robert Crooke Wood, Jr Birth:  Apr. 4, 1832 Fort Snelling Hennepin County Minnesota, USA Death:  Dec. 4, 1900 Orleans Parish Louisiana, USA

Born: April 4, 1832 Birthplace: Fort Snelling in Minnesota Father: Robert Crooke Wood Sr. 1801 - 1869 (Buried: Cold Springs Cemetery Lockport New York) Mother: Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood 1811 - 1875 (Buried: Thought to be buried somewhere in Germany) Wife: Wilhelmina Maria Trist Wood 1838 - 1914 Children: Richard Taylor Wood 1858 - 1870 Nina Sarah Wood 1860 - Marie Wood 1862 - Robert C. Wood III 1866 - Bringier Trist Wood 1868 - 1949 His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor Uncle by Marriage was President Jefferson Davis Education: Attended Kentucky Military Institute Attended St. Mary’s College 1850 - 1853: Attended West Point Military Academy

Occupation before War 1855 – 1858: Served in U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry as Lt. 1860: Lived with his father in Washington D.C. Civil War Career: 1861: Captain in Confederate States Regular Army 1861: Assistant Adjutant General to General Braxton Bragg Pensacola 1861: Resigned his rank as Captain on October 15, 1861 1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of Adam’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment 1862: Captured in Lebanon Tennessee on May 5, 1862 1862: Prisoner of War held at Johnson’s Island Prison 1862: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange in September of 1862 1863 – 1865: Colonel of Wood’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment 1864 – 1865: Acted as Brigade Commander of Mississippi Cavalry 1864: Commander of Central Sub – District of Mississippi 1865: Paroled in Jackson Mississippi on May 17, 1865 Occupation after War: Planter in Louisiana Secretary of New Orleans Louisiana City Council Businessman in Columbia and other cities President of Gatling Gun Company in Buffalo New York Died: December 4, 1900 Place of Death: New Orleans Louisiana Age at time of Death: 68 years old Burial Place: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Louisiana

Lt. General William Hardee once was quoted as saying the following about Colonel Wood. “A brave, active and intelligent officer”

Colonel Wood’s Brother was Colonel John Taylor Wood

West Point graduate 1854, US 2nd Cavalry, posted to Texas frontier, resigned in 1858. Confederate Sates of America military service as General Bragg's Chief of Staff. Son of Robert Crooke Wood, brother of John Taylor Wood, grandson of Zacary Taylor, related by marriage to Jefferson Davis who was his uncle.   
Family links:   Parents:   Robert Crooke Wood (1799 - 1869)   Ann Mackall Taylor Wood (1811 - 1875)  
 Sibling:   John Taylor Wood (1830 - 1904)*   Robert Crooke Wood (1832 - 1900)  

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Burial: Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Orleans Parish Louisiana, USA  
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