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WOODBCRY

In the reorganization of the army of the Cum- herhuul he was assigned to the command of the 3d division, 4th army corps. He participated in the battle of Chattanooga. Nov. '33-':."). 1S03, carrying the Confederate line on Orchard Knoll November 23, and took part in theassanlt and capture of Missionary Ridge. Nov. 25, 1863. He then re-en- forced Burnside at Knoxville, and subsequently commanded the 3d division, 4th corps, Army of the Cumberland, under Thomas in the Georgia campaign until the fall of Atlanta, and was se- verely wounded at Lovejoy's Station, Sept. 2, 18G4. He commanded his division at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30. and the 4th corps at Nashville, Dec. 15-16. 1864. He was promoted major-gen- eral of volunteers, Jan. 27, 1865, and brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for Cliickamauga and major-general, U.S.A., for Nashville. He commanded in East Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi; was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866, and was retired from the regular army with the brevet rank of major-general, June 9, 1868, and with the rank of brigadier-general,!March 3. 1875.

WOOD, Thomas Waterman, artist, was born in Montpelier. Vt.. Nov. 12. 1823; son of John and Mary (Waterman) Wood. He attended the district school and academy in Washington county, and studied art in Boston. He was married, in Burlington, Vt., Sept. 24, 1850, to Minerva, daugliter of the Rev. Sylvanus Robinson of Northfield, Vt.; she died May 15, 1S?9. In 1852 Mr. W^ood established a studio in New York city, and liis small portraits at- tracted the attention of the Queen's painter in Quebec, and led to orders for portraits of many noted Canadians. In 1856-57 he painted portraits of several of the statesmen resident at Washington, D.C., and in 1858, in Baltimore, Md., finished "Tlie Baltimore News Vender," his first essay at genre painting, and the ownership of which became a question at law between two prominent citizens of Baltimore, when exhibited in the National Academy of Design. He studied in Europe, 1859- 60. his tour including London, Paris, Rome and Florence. In 1861, he was in Louisville, Ky., and there painted " Triplicate," depicting tiie transition of the Negro from slavery to freedom, secured by the iletropolitan Museum of Art through the liberality of Charles S. Smith. In 1866 Mr. Wood returned to New York city; was fk-cted an associate of the National Academy of Dt.'sign in 1^09, and an Academician in 1871. lie was president of the American Water-Color so- ciety, 1878-87; vice-president of the National Academy of Design. 1879-91, and its president, 1891-99: president of the Aldine clnb; a member of the Century association, the Salmagundi aiul Country clubs of Now York city, and the Apollo

club of Montpelier, in which city he established a public art gallery, 1894-96. He died in the New York City hospital. Ai)ril 13. 1903.

WOODBERRY, George Edward, author, was born in Beverly, Mjiss., May 12, 1855; son of Henry Elliott and Sarah Dane (Tuck) Wood- berry; grandson of Elliot and Rebecca (West) W^oodberry and of John and Harriott (Dane) Tuck, and a descendant of AVilliam Woodberry of Somerset. England, who settled at Beverly, Mass., in 1628. He attended Phillips Exeter aca- demy: was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1877; was professor of English and historj' in the University of Nebraska, 1877-78 and 1880-82. serving meanwhile on the editorial staff of the Nation. 1878-79; was litei'ary editor of the Boston Post, 1888, and professor of comparative litera- ture in Columbia college from 1891. He edited: "Complete Poems of Shelle}'," with memoir and notes (1892); Lamb's "Essays of Elia '" (1892); " Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe," with E. C. Stedman (1894): Aubrey de Vere's "Selected Poems" (1895); Teunj'son's " Princess " (1898); " National Studies in American Letters " (1899); " Columbia Studies in Comparative Literature" 1899); " Bacon's Essays," (1901); and is the author ot: History of Wood EiKjraving (1883); Life of Edgar Allan Poe (1885); The Xorth Shore Wafch; a Til renod y (IS^O); Studies in Letters and Life (1890); The Heart of Man (1899): Wild Eden (1899); Makers of Literature (1900); Life of Hawfhnrne (1902).

WOODBURY, Levi, jurist, was born in Francestown, N.H., Dec. 2, 1789; son of Peter (1767-1839) and Mary (Woodbury) Woodbury; grandson of Peter (a soldier in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars) and Elizabeth (Dodge) Rea Woodbury and of James and Han- nah (Trask) W^oodbury, and a descendant on both sides of John W^oodbury, who came from Somer- setshire, England, in 1625, to Cape Ann, remov- ing to Maumkeag (Salem) in 1626. James Wood- bur\' served in Colonel Bagley's regiment of Massachusetts Rangers in the Lake George cam- imign, and also at Louisburg, Quebec and Heights of Abraham, where he was wounded. Peter AVoodburj' (1767-1839) came from Amlierst (now Mount Vernon) to Francestown about 1785, where he established himself as a merchant; re- presented the town in the legislature, and was state senator two years. Levi Woodbury was graduated from Dartmouth. A.B., 1809, A.M., 1812; studied law in tiie Litchfield (Conn.) Law scliool, in Boston. Mass., and Exeter. N.H.; wasad- mitted to the bar in 1812, and practised in Frances- town. N.H., 1813-16. He was clerk of the state senate, 1816; judge of the supreme coiirt of New Hampshire, 1817; removed to Portsmouth in 1819; was governor of New Hampshire. 1823-24. and