Joseph Pannell Taylor's Daughter Married Future Confederate General David Rumph Jones

Sarah Rebecca Taylor Jones, a daughter of Union  General Joseph Pannell Taylor, brother of President Zachary Taylor, married David Rumph Jones, a Civil War Confederate major general.

DAVID RUMPH JONES

BIRTH:  5 April 1825, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

DEATH:  20 January 1863 (aged 37), Richmond, Virginia

BURIAL:  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

Born in South Carolina, but family moved to Georgia from where he was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1842.  He graduated in 1846, placing 46th out of a class of  59.  Among his classmates were  future Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and Union general George B. McClellan.

--Old Secesh

President Taylor's Union General Brother-- Part 2: Joseph Pannell Taylor

Civil War brigadier general.  Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a U.S. Army officer and brother of  President Zachary Taylor.  With the outbreak of the War of 1812, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of 1st lieutenant.

Remaining in the army after the war, he was promoted to captain in 1825 and was appointed  Assistant Commissary General of Subsistence in 1829.  Promoted to major in  1838, he was again promoted to lieutenant colonel and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence  on November 30, 1841.

At the beginning of the Civil War, he was promoted to colonel of the 9th U.S. Infantry in September 1861 and commissioned Brigadier Commissary General of Subsistence on February 9, 1863.

He was also the uncle to Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor.

Joseph Taylor died of diarrhea and partial paralysis at age 68 in Washington, D.C..  His son, Joseph Hancock Taylor also served in the Union Army as a colonel.

--Old Secesh

President Taylor's Grandsons Fought for the Confederacy-- Part 3: John Taylor Wood

Zachary Taylor's daughter, Ann Mackall Taylor Wood, married Robert Crooke Wood, who remained with the Union during the war.  They had two sons and a daughter, Robert Crooke Wood Jr, who I wrote about in the last two posts.  Also there was a daughter, Sarah Knox  Wood (1835-1915).

John Taylor Wood led quite a life and compiled a remarkable record as a Confederate Navy officer during the Civil War.  I will write more about his service in my Running the Blockade:  Civil War Navy blog.

A  short synopsis is here.

Served in U.S. Navy after graduating from the USNA in 1853.  Resigned his commission, but U.S. Navy dismissed him.  His family relationship with Jefferson Davis (his aunt was the first wife of Davis and the fact he was the grandson of a former president) gave him great influence in the Confederacy.

Was a second lieutenant on the CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads and fight against the USS Monitor.  Led surprise attacks on Union ships in the Chesapeake Bay area.  Commanded the CSS Tallahassee on a commerce raiding expedition along the American coast and captured and destroyed 31 union ships, captured the Union warship USS Underwriter at New Bern, N.C..

He was also with Jefferson Davis at his capture in Georgia.  Escaping to Cuba, he then went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and lived there the remainder of his life.

--Old Secesh

President Zachary Taylor's Grandsons Fought for the Confederacy: Robert Crooke Wood, Jr.-- Part 1

Their mother was Ann Mackall Taylor Wood, daughter of Zachary Taylor, president of the United States.  She married Robert Crooke Wood, who was an officer in the United States Army who continued to serve the Union forces in the Civil War.

Their two sons, however, joined the Confederacy, one in the Army and the other in the Navy.

From Find-A-Grave.

COLONEL ROBERT CROOKE WOOD, JR.

BORN:  4 April 1832, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

DIED:  4 December  1900  (aged 68)  , Orleans Parish, Louisiana

BURIED:  Metarie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana.

His grandfather was President Zachary Taylor,  His uncle by marriage was Jefferson Davis, Confederate president.

Education:  Kentucky Military Institute.  Attended St, Mary's College.  1850-1853 attended USMA, West Point.

1855-1858 served as lieutenant in 2nd U.S. Cavalry.

--Old Secesh

President Zachary Taylor's Children-- Part 2: Ann Mackall Taylor Wood

Find-A-Grave.

ANN MACKALL TAYLOR WOOD

Daughter of Zachary Taylor.

BIRTH:   9 April 1811,  Louisville, Kentucky

DEATH:  27 December 1875, Germany

BURIAL:  Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, New York  (Maybe.  Might still be buried in Germany)

Married  Dr, Robert Crooke Wood on September 20, 1829, at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien County, Wisconsin.

Her husband was from Rhode Island and eventually became  brigadier general in the Union Army.  The couple had two sons: John Taylor Wood and Robert Crooke Wood Jr. who were officers in the Confederate Navy and Army.

A Family Split by the War.  --Old Secesh

President Zachary Taylor's Children-- Part 1

From Find-A-Grave.

ZACHARY TAYLOR

BIRTH:  24 November 1784  Orange, Virginia

DEATH:  9 July 1850 (age 65)

BURIAL: Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky

He was the last U.S. President to own slaves while in office.

His youngest child and only son, Richard Taylor, was a Confederate general during the Civil War and his second child, Sarah Knox  Taylor, married future Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 1835, but died of malaria shortly after their marriage.

--Old Secesh

U.S. Presidents with Confederate Ties-- Part 3: Zachary Taylor's Children

Some of the Civil War split between North and South involved the children of U.S. presidents.

One of President Zachary Taylor's sons, Richard, rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and was a top figure in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the war.  He surrendered his army on May 4, 1865, four weeks after Robert E. Lee.

Another of Taylor's children, Sarah, married future Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1835 at the age of 21.  At the time, Davis was serving in the U.S. Army under Taylor and Taylor  forbade the relationship, saying, "I will be damned if another daughter of mine will marry into the Army."

Sarah came down with malaria later in 1835 and died.  Taylor, who did in office in 1850, reportedly never forgave Davis for her loss.

In addition, one of Taylor's grandsons, John Taylor Wood,  served on the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in its famed battle with the USS Monitor in Hampton Roads in March, 1862.  He was the son of Taylor's eldest daughter Ann.  He also commanded the CSS Tallahassee in a very successful commerce raid along the U.S. coast.  That ship left out of Wilmington, North Carolina.

He also had a brother who served in the Confederate Army named Robert Crooke Wood, Jr.

--Old Secesh