President Taylor's Grandsons Fought for the Confederacy-- Part 2: Col. Robert Cooke Wood

Service in the Confederate Army:

1861

Captain in the Confederate States Regular Army

Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Braxton Bragg  in Pensacola

Resigned his rank as captain on October 15, 1861

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1861-1863

Lt. Col. of Adam's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

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1862

Captured at Lebanon, Tennessee, on May 5, 1862

Prisoner of War held at Johnson's Island Prison in Ohio

Exchanged in prisoner exchange in September of 1862

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1863-1865

Colonel of Wood's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

1864-1865

Acted as  Brigade Commander Mississippi Cavalry

1864

Acted as commander of Central Sub-District of Mississippi

1865

Paroled in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 17, 1865

--Old Secesh

Sgt. Ivy Ritchie-- Part 2: Battles, Captured, Wounded, Promotions, Death and Burials

**  Captured at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September  17, 1862.  (Battle of Antietam)  Confined at Fort Delaware until exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia, Nov. 10, 1862.

**  Married Clara Sophia Christina Ridenhour in Stanly County while on leave December  14, 1862.

**  Wounded at Chancellorsville, May 10, 1863, and promoted to corporal  two days later.

**  Rejoined Company H, 14th N.C. in August 1863.

**  Participated in every major battle of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1864, including the Battles of Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.

**  Promoted to sergeant in July 1, 1864.

**  Killed at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

**  Buried at Appomattox Station.

**  Body moved to Poplar Grove National Cemetery and interred in Grave 4824 as Ivy Ritchie from New York state.

Oops.  --Old Secesh