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1284 of Petersburg was on the lines between that city and Richmond, also taking part in the battle of the Crater with Johnson's division, in which he was slightly wounded in the head, and the fight at Burgess' Mill, in both of which he commanded his regiment. He was in the battle of Five Forks, and at Sailor's Creek was wounded, being then taken to his home. His service was gallant and devoted, and he was recommended for promotion to lieutenant-colonel by Col. William B. Tabb, but the close of the war prevented his receipt of the commission. After the close of hostilities he studied law and engaged in practice with his father until the latter's death in 1885, since when he has continued in his professional work alone. He has served one term as commonwealth's attorney for Charlotte county, and held the office of judge of Mecklenburg county from 1874 to 1880. In 1869 he was married to Mary J., daughter of Dr. Richard Wood, and granddaughter of Richard Sampson, of Goochland, Va. She died in 1873, leaving one son, Cabell Sampson Wood, and in 1878 he married Sallie L. Morton, by whom he has six children. Two brothers of Judge Wood served in the army of Northern Virginia: John S., captain of Company G, Thirty-eighth Virginia regiment, and Lieut.-Col. W. W. Wood, of the Fourteenth Virginia regiment.

Lieutenant Henry C. Woodhouse, a gallant officer of the Twelfth Virginia infantry regiment, of the Confederate States army, was born at Norfolk, Va., September 13, 1835, the descendant of a line of Virginians of distinguished origin. His father, William Woodhouse, was born March 12, 1799, married Ann Maria Spangler September 17, 1829, and died April 18, 1878. Jonathan Woodhouse, father of the latter, was born in 1749, married Ann Barnes and died in 1824. His father, William Woodhouse, was married to a Miss Pembroke and died in 1774. His father, Henry Woodhouse, married Elizabeth Dawley and died in 1719. His father, William Woodhouse, married Jean Dawley and died in 1700. His father, Henry Woodhouse, settled in lower Norfolk county, now Princess Anne county, some time prior to the year 1647, served in the Virginia house of burgesses, and died in 1655. The latter was the son of Sir Henry Woodhouse, governor of Bermuda, who married Anne Bacon, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and half-sister of Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and lord chancellor of England. Ann Maria Spangler, mother of Lieutenant Woodhouse, was the daughter of Isaac Spangler, a resident of Baltimore who was stationed at Fortress Monroe in the government employ. Lieutenant Woodhouse, after receiving his education at Norfolk, found employment in the trade of a plasterer until the outbreak of the war. Then, on May 8, 1861, he enlisted as a second sergeant in Company H of the Twelfth Virginia regiment of infantry, commanded by Capt. Finley Ferguson. His first service was at Boush's Bluff, where he remained about eight months, and had some experience in fighting while locating batteries at Sewell's Point. Rejoining his regiment in the entrenched camp, he remained there until the evacuation of the city in May, 1862, when he accompanied his regiment to Petersburg, and thence to battlefields before Richmond, where he participated in the hard fighting at French's Farm, Frayser's Farm and Malvern Hill. Subsequently he took part in the battles of Second Manassas, Crampton's Gap, Md., and all the minor