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606 the battles of Shiloh, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post (where he was slightly wounded), Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta, Jonesboro', Lovejoy Station, and Bentonville. He was also present at the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, and commanded a division in Gen. William T. Sherman's march to the sea. He was ap- pointed brevet brig- adier-general of vol- unteers, 12 Jan., 1865 ; brevet major- general of volun- teers, 13 March, 1865 ; full brigadier- general, 31 May, 1865; and on 17 Feb., 1866, was mus- tered out of the ser- vice. Upon leav- ing the army, Gen. Woods engaged in cotton - planting in Alabama, resuming at the same time the practice of law, and taking an active part in the reconstruction of the state, of which he became chancellor in 1868. In 1869 he was appointed U. S. judge for the 5th circuit, and on 15 Dec, 1880, was nominated by Presi- dent Hayes an associate justice of the U. S. su- preme court, being confirmed on 22 Dec. — His brother, Charles Robert, soldier, b. in Newark, Ohio, 19 Feb., 1827; d. there, 26 Feb., 1885, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1852, appointed brevet 2d lieutenant of infantry, and served on garrison and frontier duty till 1861. In the attempt to relieve Fort Sumter in April of that year, he commanded the troops on the steamer " Star of the West," and he was appointed colonel of the 76th Ohio volunteers, 13 Oct., 1861. He was at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and commanded a brigade during the siege of Corinth, and a regi- ment in the Vicksburg campaign. He was recom- mended for promotion for bravery at Arkansas Post, and became a brigadier-general of volunteers, 4 Aug., 1863, leading a brigade in the 15th corps at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. In the cam- paign in Georgia and the Carolinas he commanded a division in the same corps. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, 4 Aug., 1863, brevet- ted major-general, 22 Nov., 1864, made brevet briga- dier- and major-general in the U. S. army, 13 March, 1865, and mustered out of the volunteer service, 1 Sept., 1866. He was transferred to the 27th infantry, 27 Sept., 1866, and during the latter fart of the same year was on the plains fighting ndians and guarding railways. He became colonel of the 2d infantry, 23 March, 1874, and was retired on 15 Dec. of the same year. He was familiarly known in the army as " Susan Wood," a name that had been applied to him when he was a cadet at the militarv academy.

WOODVILLE, Richard Caton, b. in Balti- more, Md., about 1825 ; d. in London, Eng., 13 Sept., 1855. He studied in Dusseldorf, whence he sent to the American art union " The Card-Play- ers " (1847), and " The Cavalier's Return " and "Mexican News" (1848). He twice revisited Eu- rope, and while in London was cut short in a ca- reer of much promise. Among his effective and well - finished genre pictures were "Old '76," "Young '48," "The Politicians," "The Game of Chess." " Waiting for the Stage," and " The Sail- or's Wedding." Several of them were engraved or lithographed.

WOODWARD, Ashbel, physician, b. in Well- ington, Conn., 26 June, 1804; d. in Franklin, Conn., 20 Nov., 1885. He was graduated at the medical department of Bowdoin in 1829, settled in Frank- lin, Conn., and resided there until his death, en- gaging in the practice of his profession and in genealogical and historical researches. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered as surgeon in the 26th army corps, sharing in the siege and capture of Port Hudson. Yale gave him the honorary degree of M. D. in 1854. Dr. Woodward was president of the Connecticut medi- cal society for many years, and a member of the New England historic-genealogical society, to which he contributed about fifty papers. His pub- lications include " Vindication of Gen. Israel Put- nam " (Norwich, Conn., 1841) ; " Historical Account of the Connecticut Medical Society" (Hartford, 1859) ; " Biographical Sketches of the Early Phy- sicians of "Norwich" (Norwich, 1859); "Medical Ethics" (Hartford, 1860); "Life," an address (1861) ; " Memoir of Col. Thomas Knowlton " (Bos- ton, 1861) ; " Life of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon " (Hart- ford, 1862); "Vindication of Army Surgeons" (New Haven, 1863) ; " Specialism in Medicine " (1866); and "The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Franklin," an address delivered in April, 1868 (1870). See a memoir of him by his son. Henry H. Woodward (Boston, 1886).

WOODWARD, Augustus B., jurist, b. in Vir- ginia about 1775; d. in Florida in 1827. He was a laborious student, adopted the profession of law, and in 1805 emigrated to Michigan to become a judge of the territory, holding office till 1824. During that service he published the " code of laws " that bears his name. He was then appointed a judge of the territory of Florida, where he died after a service of three years. He was an ardent patriot, and during the second war with Great Britain was the author of the resolution that was adopted by the legislature of Michigan prohibiting the wearing of any clothing made from English goods. He is said to have been a founder of the town of Ypsilanti, Mich., but the statement is not corroborated. He published " Considerations on the Substance of the Sun" (Washington, D. C, 1801) ; " Considerations on the Executive Govern- ment of the United States of America" (Flatbush, 1809); and "A System of Universal Science" (Philadelphia, 1816).

WOODWARD, Calvin Milton, educator, b. in Fitchburg, Mass., 25 Aug., 1837. He was graduated at Harvard in 1860, and became principal of Brown high-school in Newburyport, Mass. During the civil war he was captain in the 48th Massachusetts volunteers, taking part in the siege and capture of Port Hudson under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks. In 1865 he was chosen vice-principal of the Smith academy of Washington university, St. Louis, and in 1868 he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in that university, where since 1870 he has held the chair of mathematics and applied mechanics, also since 1870 he has been dean of its polytechnic school. He planned and organized in 1879 the manual training-school as a subordinate department of the university without resigning his other duties, and has filled the directorship of this school from the first. The St. Louis manual training-school is the pioneer of its kind in America, and has served as the model in organizing other similar schools, in consequence of which Prof. Woodward's expositions of the aims and value of manual training have had the widest influence in shaping the new education both at home and abroad. He was a member of the school board of