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Second Lieutenant Jos. H. Cobb. Commissioned May 15, 1864 ; killed (while sergeant) in action at Lovejoy's.
Sergeant D. W. Trump. Enlisted August 15, 1863 ; discharged May 20, 1864. Corporal James Jones. Enlisted August 19, 1863.
Corporal James Y. Buchanan. Enlisted July 28, 1863 ; discharged May 20, 1864.
Corporal E. F. Manning. Enlisted July 29, 1863.
Corporal Jacob Smith. Enlisted August 5, 1863.
Corporal James H. Blakesley. Enlisted July 29, 1863.
Teamster Daniel S. Reed. Enlisted July 27, 1863; captured at Newnan, Georgia.
Farrier Mark J. Miller. Enlisted August 29, 1863; captured at Cassville, Georgia.
Brown, Oscar. Enlisted August 7, 1863.
Burd, James. Enlisted August 29, 1863.
Day, George. Enlisted June 27, 1863.
Deharty, Thomas B. Enlisted August 19, 1863.
Ellis, Lewis W. Enlisted July 27, 1863 ; captured at Florence, Alabama. Head, William A. Enlisted August 12, 1863.
Jordan, James. Enlisted August 5, 1863 ; captured.
Kimball, A. Enlisted July 27, 1863.
Livingston, R. Enlisted July 27, 1863 ; captured at Newnan, Georgia.
Lovell, William B. Enlisted August 25, 1863.
Marikle, DeForest. Enlisted August 17, 1863.
Martin, W. Enlisted August 5, 1863 ; died.
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Mitchell, H. H. Enlisted August 20, 1863 ; captured at Newnan, Georgia.
Millsap, DeM. L. Enlisted August 6, 1863; discharged March 22, 1864, disability.
Morris, George. Enlisted July 29, 1863.
Moger, Charles A. Enlisted August 17, 1863 ; discharged December 8, 1863, disability.
Murray, M. D. Enlisted August 8, 1863 ; died at Nashville.
Murray, J. G. Enlisted August 8, 1863.
Myer, F. Enlisted August 27, 1863.
Newell, R. Enlisted July 19, 1863.
Snyder, John. Enlisted August 2, 1863.
Thompson, Abner. Enlisted July 30, 1863.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIRST INFANTRY.
Quigley, E. B. Enlisted April 23, 1861, Company I; mustered out August 25, 1861.
Esgate, Charles W. Enlisted April 24, 1861, at Mt. Vernon, Company K; mustered out August 21, 1861.
SECOND CONSOLIDATED INFANTRY (SECOND AND THIRD).
Lieutenant Colonel George L. Wright, from private, commissioned second lieu- tenant, Company A, July 8, 1864 ; promoted captain November 10, 1864 ; promoted lieutenant colonel January 4, 1865; resigned April 3, 1865.
Book, Joseph. Enlisted September 23, 1864; mustered out May 31, 1865. Bickford, Elijah, Monmouth. Enlisted September 26, 1864, Company D; mustered out June 3, 1865.
Beck, John, Otter Creek. Enlisted September 28, 1864, Company E; mustered out May 31, 1865.
Buck, Henry, Hickory Grove. Enlisted September 21, 1864, Company E; mustered out May 31, 1865.
Claussen, Henry, Washington township. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Com- pany A ; mustered out June 30, 1865.
Curran, John Maquoketa. Enlisted March 15, 1864, Company C; mustered out July 12, 1865. (Residence should be Clinton county. )
Chapman, George, Otter Creek. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company E; mustered out May 31, 1865 ; wounded December 7, 1864, Eden Station, Georgia.
Driscoll, Murty, Higginsport. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company K; mustered out June 1, 1865.
Easton, John, Cottonville. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company B; died of typhoid fever April 17, 1865, New York.
Earnest, Lewis, Cottonville. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company K ; mus- tered out June 1, 1865.
Fischer, Theo., St. Donatus. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company K ; mus- tered out June 1, 1865; had served Mexican war, Clark's Artillery Battalion, Missouri Volunteers.
Gustman, Charles, Spring Brook. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company A ; mustered out June 30, 1865.
Horton, Snyder, Ozark. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company D; mustered out June 3, 1865.
Jaynes, Jonathan, Higginsport. Enlisted September 27, 1864, Company H; mustered out May 31, 1865.
Knowles, Harker, Sterling. Enlisted September 26, 1864, Company C; mus- tered out June 1, 1865.
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Lathrop, James R. Enlisted September 26, 1864, Company C; mustered out June 1, 1865.
McNally, Michael, Otto Creek. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company E; mustered out May 31, 1865.
McAuley, Wm. H. H., Fulton. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company K; mustered out June 1, 1865. Also see Company I, Fifth Infantry.
Snyder, Charles, Farmer's Creek. Enlisted September 24, 1864, Company E; mustered out May 31, 1865.
Shafer, Henry, Cottonville. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company K ; mus- tered out June 1, 1865.
SECOND INFANTRY.
Rosecrans, T. B., Fulton. Enlisted August 29, 1862 ; mustered out 1864.
Willey, R. P., Maquoketa. Enlisted May 5, 1861 ; discharged November 2, 1861.
THIRD INFANTRY.
First Sergeant George L. Wright. Enlisted May 18, 1861; mustered out 1864. Sergeant James Mayne. Enlisted May 18, 1861 ; mustered out 1864.
Isbell, George B. Enlisted May 18, 1861 ; died October 2, 1863.
Allen, James F. Enlisted October II, 1864 ; prisoner March 25, 1865, near Goldsboro, North Carolina ; fate unknown.
SIXTH INFANTRY.
Washburn, Reuben, Andrew. Enlisted as corporal July 12, 1861 ; veteranized January 26, 1864 ; mustered out July 21, 1865.
EIGHTH INFANTRY.
Arnsdorf, Peter, St. Donatus. Enlisted November 29, 1864; discharged for disability May 13, 1865, at Memphis, Tennessee.
Becher, John, St. Donatus. Enlisted November 29, 1864; mustered out De- cember 1, 1865.
Becher, Theodor, St. Donatus. Enlisted November 29, 1864; mustered out July 5, 1865.
Blake, Henry, Sabula. Enlisted September 21, 1864; mustered out April 20. 1866; substitute for P. G. Stiles, pork packer at Sabula.
Conklin, Moses. Enlisted August 10, 1861 ; mustered out September 28, 1864. Manders, John P., St. Donatus. Enlisted November 29, 1864; wounded at Spanish Fort, Alabama, March 28, 1865 ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
TENTH INFANTRY.
Scott, Robert, Maquoketa. Enlisted September 27, 1864, Company C; mus- tered out May 28, 1865.
Struble, Riley, Farmers Creek township. Enlisted October 5, 1864, Company C; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Vollbehr, Fritz, Union township. Enlisted September 22, 1864. Company D; mustered out May 29, 1865.
ELEVENTH INFANTRY.
Wright, John A., Maquoketa. Enlisted September 23, 1864, Company F ; mustered out July 15, 1865.
Van Pelt, Daniel. Enlisted August 22, 1863.
Welch, Henry C. Enlisted July 13, 1863.
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Company Unknown.
Knowlton, H. A. Enlisted October 24, 1864.
Robbins, H. C. Enlisted April 8, 1864.
THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
Fisher, Frank. Enlisted October 1, 1861 ; mustered out July 21, 1865. FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
Jewett, N. Enlisted October 12, 1861 ; mustered out November 16, 1864.
Widel, E. D. Enlisted October 16, 1861 ; died July 14, 1862.
Loy, John W. Enlisted January 4, 1864; mustered out November 16, 1864.
RESIDUARY BATTERY, FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
Jewett, M. L. Enlisted December 1, 1863; mustered out August 8, 1865. FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.
Orill, Aaron. Enlisted February 20, 1863 ; killed at Shiloh.
Eberly, Allen. Enlisted February 20, 1862; veteranized February 21, 1864; mustered out July 24, 1865.
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY.
Stevens, Warren N. Enlisted February 29, 1864; mustered out July 25, 1865. EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY.
Surgeon John H. Allen. Commissioned August 8, 1862; resigned March 22,, 1864.
Dickenson, Nathan S. Enlisted July 12, 1862 ; discharged November 22, 1862. TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
Hoff, Jesse. Enlisted June 4, 1862; mustered out July 15, 1865.
Lody, H. C. Enlisted June 9, 1862 ; mustered out July 15, 1865.
Morgan, F. W. Enlisted June 8, 1862; mustered out July 15, 1865.
Smith, John. Enlisted June 9, 1862; died.
Sawdy, H. C. Enlisted June 9, 1862 ; mustered out July 15, 1865.
Winterstein, M. Enlisted June 4, 1862 ; discharged August 25, 1862, disability.
Winterstein, Philip. Enlisted June 4, 1862; wounded May 22, 1863.
Corporal Alexander Milne. Enlisted August 2, 1862; wounded at Vicksburg.
TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Jewell, James E. Enlisted November 10, 1864; mustered out August 8, 1865.
Allers, Charles. Enlisted November 10, 1864; mustered out August 9, 1865.
Street, Calvin. Enlisted August 22, 1862; captured August 29, 1864; mus- tered out August 8, 1865.
THIRTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
Shattock, Benjamin L. Enlisted August 9, 1862; died March 1, 1863.
THIRTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Easton, A. P. Enlisted October 15, 1862; mustered out at Davenport.
Pearson, Thomas. Enlisted October 15, 1862; mustered out at Davenport.
FORTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
Larkey, Alexander. Enlisted May 10, 1864; mustered out September 23, 1864.
Lias, C. C. Enlisted May 12, 1864 ; mustered out September 23, 1864.
Mitchell, D. Enlisted May 10, 1864; mustered out September 23, 1864.
THIRD BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Junior First Lieutenant Joseph Julius Deagl. Enlisted as sergeant ; promoted senior second lieutenant, December 13, 1861 ; promoted junior first lieutenant, October 4, 1864; resigned June 17, 1865.
Borget, Adolph. Discharged August 27, 1862, disability.
Mayne, James. Enlisted September 27, 1864; mustered out October 3, 1865. Wilson, A. J. Discharged June 23, 1863.
Farrington, George L. Veteranized December 22, 1863 ; mustered out October 3, 1865.
SIXTH CAVALRY.
Sergeant Jacob Oswald. Enlisted October 17, 1862; mustered out October 17, I865.
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Corporal John P. Murray. Enlisted October 20, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865.
Wagoner Samuel Gilmore. Enlisted October 28, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865.
Burdick, Alfred. Enlisted November 29, 1862 ; mustered out October 17, 1865. Doyle, Geroy. Enlisted December 8, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Griffith, Charles. Enlisted October 6, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Preston, Charles. Enlisted November 5, 1862; discharged January 15, 1863, disability.
Pflug, Henry. Enlisted December 8, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Shirley, Daniel. Enlisted November 6, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Tripp, H. W. Enlisted October 27, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Littell, J. H. R. Enlisted October 11, 1862 ; discharged January 3, 1864.
Martin, C. C. Enlisted November 8, 1862; discharged August 12, 1863. Nims, Philo. Enlisted October 9, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Peters, Valentine. Enlisted October 12, 1863 ; mustered out October 17, 1865.
Van Hook, William H. Enlisted October 14, 1862 ; mustered out October 17, 1865.
Wilson, John D. Enlisted October 14, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Hotchkiss, H. S. Enlisted September 17, 1862; mustered out October 17, 1865. Raymond, Joseph. Enlisted March 13, 1863 ; mustered out October 17, 1865. Hoyt, William F. Enlisted October 10, 1862 ; mustered out October 17, 1865.
SEVENTH CAVALRY.
Johnson, George W. Enlisted March 6, 1863; mustered out May 17, 1866.
Mayberry, Calvin. Enlisted May 4, 1864 ; mustered out June 22, 1866.
Mayberry, William E. Enlisted May 4, 1864; died August 30, 1866.
NINTH CAVALRY.
Luzere, Jacob. Enlisted November 25, 1863; mustered out February 3, 1866. Stickley, A. Enlisted November 25, 1863; mustered out February 3, 1866. Casser, S. Enlisted September 21, 1863; mustered out February 3, 1866.
FOURTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
Smith, Anderson. Enlisted September 5, 1861 ; mustered out November 3, 1864.
ELEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Baldwin, A. W. Enlisted August 10, 1861 ; died November 13, 1861.
THIRTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
Bacon, William F. Enlisted November 1, 1861; promoted sergeant major ; date of mustered out not given.
NINETEENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Allison, Isaac S., Bellevue. Enlisted June 12, 1861.
Beardsley, Howard F., Bellevue. Enlisted June 13, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864, as corporal; injured in railroad wreck September 17, 1861.
Cowden, Harrison, Bellevue. Enlisted June 12, 1861 ; mustered out July . 9, 1864. Injured in railroad wreck.
Frost, William, Bellevue. Enlisted July 13, 1861 ; killed on railroad Septem- ber 17, 1861.
Fowler, Peter M., Bellevue. Enlisted June 13, 1861 ; killed on railroad Sep- tember 17, 1861.
Foley, Michael V., Bellevue. Enlisted June 12, 1861 ; hurt in railroad wreck and discharged afterwards, sergeant Company K, Thirty-first Iowa Infantry.
Galloway, William, Bellevue. Enlisted June 12, 1861 ; transferred to Signal Corps.
Jones, Lyman M., Zwingle. Enlisted June 17, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Rhea, Charles H., Bellevue. Enlisted June 10, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864, as sergeant. Hurt in railroad wreck.
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Carroll, Louis M., Higginsport. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Carroll, Lawrence, Higginsport. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; killed on railroad September 17, 1861.
Malony, Michael, Bellevue township. Enlisted June 12, 1861 ; hurt in railroad wreck and discharged; afterwards second lieutenant, Company K, Thirty-first Iowa Infantry.
Michael, John M., Zwingle. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864. Smith, Joseph, Higginsport. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; killed on railroad, Sep- tember 17, 1861.
Smith, William C., La Motte. Enlisted June -- , 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Wintersteen, Milton, Fulton. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; discharged, disability November 5, 1861 ; afterwards enlisted in Company A, Twenty-first Iowa Infantry.
Walker, Abram, Iron Hill. Enlisted June -, 1861; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Walker, Richard, Iron Hill. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Walker, Henry M., Iron Hill. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
Morrisey, John, Smith's Ferry, Tete des Morts township. Enlisted June -, 1861 ; mustered out July 9, 1864.
(The last four names were not in the original squad, but were known to have lived in Jackson county. The mother of the Walker brothers went with the com- pany for a time as laundress, and none of them returned to Jackson county after the war. [Interview with M. V. Foley] ).
TWENTY-SECOND ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Henneberry, Michael. Enlisted July 5, 1861; transferred to Invalid Corps.
FORTY-FIFTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Brown, Barnard. Enlisted August 30, 1861.
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS.
Warren, William Augustus, Bellevue. Captain and adjutant quartermaster, United States Volunteers, April 21, 1862; mustered out September 20, 1865.
LIFE OF COLONEL JOSEPH J. WOODS. BY MAJOR D. W. REED, TWELFTH IOWA.
Colonel Joseph Jackson Woods was born January II, 1823, on a farm in Brown county, Ohio. His ancestors came from Ireland but were not of the Irish race. Some of them were in Londonberry during the famous siege of that place in 1689. His grandfather, James Woods, came to America in 1773 and settled in Pennsylvania, where the father of the subject of this sketch, Samuel Woods, was born in the same year, 1773. James Woods was engaged during a part of the Revolution in furnishing supplies to the army.
The mother of Joseph J. Woods was born in Ireland in 1785, and came to America at the age of six or seven years ; her maiden name was Ritchey. Joseph was the youngest son that arrived at mature age of a numerous family ; his father being at the time of his birth fifty years old, and having been in his prime a man of more than average ability among the farming class to which he belonged, but while Joseph was yet young his father became a physical, financial, and mental wreck, so that at the age of ten years, Joseph was thrown on the world to succeed by his own resources.
He went with an older brother, John, just then married, to Rush county, Indiana, where they settled in a dense forest. He remained in Indiana two years and then returned to Ohio and lived with relatives until he was fourteen
COLONEL J. J. WOODS
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years old when he was apprenticed to Joseph Parish (late private secretary to President. Grant, to sign land patents) in Felicity, Clerment county, Ohio, to learn the saddler's trade.
In his early boyhood, while at school, which was but a small part of the time, he learned rapidly being in advance of other children of his age. He never attended the public school after his thirteenth year.
He served five years' apprenticeship with Mr. Parish, working for his board and clothing, and became very proficient in the trade. Working in the winter season until 9 o'clock p. m. five nights of the week, he had but little time for mental culture, but fortunately his cousin, Dr. Allen Woods, about this time married a Miss Whipple of Vermont, a lady of fine culture, who, be- coming interested in young Woods, proposed to become his private tutor.
Under this arrangement, by improving every spare moment, he completed a course of arithmetic, English grammar, geography, and obtained a fair knowl- edge of history from books kindly loaned from the library of Dr. J. M. Woods. At the expiration of his apprenticeship, the Rev. Mr. Irvine, Presbyterian min- ister and graduate of Ohio State University, informed young Woods that as he was about to review his Latin and Greek studies, he would willingly take a pupil and give instructions in those branches free of charge, as a more thor- ough method of making his review. Under this arrangement young Woods pursued his studies seven months, working mornings and evenings in the sad- dler's shop to pay his board.
The first Methodist college established in America was located at Augusta, Kentucky, seven miles from Felicity, Ohio. It was under the joint patronage of the Ohio and Kentucky conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, each conference being entitled to keep at the college a certain number of students free of tuition, these to be selected by the presiding elders of the various dis- tricts from worthy young men of limited means.
The Rev. W. N. Roper, presiding elder of the district, gave young Woods the appointment and he entered the freshman class in that institution the same year. Although free tuition was provided, he found it difficult to provide for board and clothing and books, therefore by advice of Dr. Woods, he applied for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point to take the place of U. S. Grant who would graduate the following June. His principal recommendations were from Hon. Alonzo Knowles, the leading Democratic politician at Felicity, Ohio, and Jesse R. Grant, Whig, then of Bethel, Ohio. There were several competitors for the appointment and Dr. Doan, member of Congress, declined to make a selection but sent the papers to the war department where the appointment was given to Woods and he entered the academy in June, 1843.
Seventy-five were appointed to this class; thirty-eight graduated in it in 1847, Woods standing No. 3 in his class. During the last year at West Point he was assistant professor as well as student. July 1, 1847, he received his ap- pointment as second lieutenant, in First Regiment United States Artillery.
The war with Mexico was at its height and he was ordered to New York Harbor to drill and organize recruits for the war, where he remained until October 10th, when out of these recruits companies L and M, First Artillery, were organized and Lieutenant Woods was ordered to proceed with said com- panies to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and then join his company, C, to which he had been assigned, in northern Mexico.
The command sailed from New York, October 10th, on the ship "Empire." The weather was boisterous and after four days of invisible sun the ship ran upon a coral reef-entirely covered by water-breaking a large hole in the vessel, when she settled down and broke in two. They were by captain's reck- oning, fifty miles from shore, but upon it partially clearing off, they perceived a small uninhabited island called Fowl Key about one half mile distant and daylight brought to view Abaco, the largest of the Bahama group, at a distance of
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about five miles. Wreckers came to the assistance of the ship and about 10 o'clock a. m., they landed the soldiers on Fowl Key where they remained one week.
Vessels were then procured to take a part of the command to Charleston, South Carolina. The balance with Lieutenant Woods was taken to Nassau, New Providence, since famous as the rendezvous for rebel cruisers. Remaining here eight days, he then in company with Lieutenant Morris, sailed for Char- leston where they remained at Fort Moultrie until December 25, 1847, when they again sailed for Vera Cruz in the ship "Republic" sent out from New York for that purpose.
On January 1, 1848, as they were entering the port of Vera Cruz, a terrible "Norther" struck the vessel carrying them out to sea. They finally landed January 5th and found that a majority of the regiment to which the command was assigned was on garrison duty in the city, but Company C, to which Lieutenant Woods had been assigned was in northern Mexico. Woods was therefore transferred to Company M, and assigned to duty with the regiment at Vera Cruz. In May he had yellow fever and was very sick. About August I, 1848, peace having been declared, Vera Cruz was evacuated and our troops immediately embarked for New York, companies L and M taking passage upon the screw propeller "Massachusetts."
In October, 1848, Woods was promoted to first lieutenant, and November 10, 1848, embarked on board the "Massachusetts" with companies L and M for Oregon to quell disturbances recently arisen there, in which Dr. Whitman and a number of missionaries had been murdered.
The expedition was under the command of Brevet Major Hatheway, and Lieutenant Woods was its quartermaster and commissary. These were the first United States troops ever in Oregon. On the passage, about January Ist, the ship put into port at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and remained several days giving the officers an opportunity of inspecting the city, Imperial gardens, where all tropical fruits were growing, the foundries and other places of interest. Lieu- tenant Woods was taken through the convent of the Monks of St. Bernardine and was present at the Imperial Chapel when the emperor and empress par- took of midnight mass, the going out of the year 1848.
Sailing from Rio Janeiro they passed near the Falkland Islands and entered the Straits of Magellan, with Patagonia on the right and Terra Del Fuego on the left, and were one week in the straits sailing only by daylight and such distances as would insure good harbors by night. There were two convict settlements on the straits and some Indians. The officers enjoyed frequent rambles on shore. At Valparaiso, Chili, they were shown specimens of gold recently taken from newly discovered gold mines in California.
The next point made was the Sandwich Islands, where they arrived in fifty- two days and remained eight days. They were constantly feted by the king as theirs was the first steamer ever seen by him. The officers gave the king and queen an excursion on board the steamer accompanied by the royal retinue. The expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River May 9, 1849-six months out of New York and having sailed twenty-two thousand miles-they proceeded up the river ninety miles to Fort Vancouver, the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company, situated on the north bank of the Columbia River- what is now Washington. Here Company L, to which Woods now belonged, landed, and Company M was ordered to Puget Sound.
In the spring of 1850 Lieutenant Woods with Company L was removed to Astoria near the mouth of the river and from this point Lieutenant Woods with two white men and two Indians attempted to find a practicable wagon road from Astoria to the plains across the coast range of mountains. They found the task more difficult than was anticipated and the party came near starving to death, living for some time on such provisions as they could find in the woods upon the mountains.
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At another time Lieutenant Woods went in a row boat with the collector of the post of Astoria and a detail of men in the evening to seize a ship for violating the revenue laws. They ran along side the ship as she lay at anchor near the mouth of the river. The collector tried to climb the ladder hanging over the side but failed, when Lieutenant Woods and one man mounted the ladders and reached the deck when the ropes were cut by the ship's crew, the ladder fell into the collector's boat and he pulled for shore leaving the lieutenant on board but calling back to him that he would come for him in the morning.
The ship hoisted anchor and immediately put to sea. The collector secured a pilot boat armed with a cannon and gave chase, but after a few hours' pursuit and firing a few shots, the pilot boat gave up the chase. After a tedious run the ship put into a recently discovered bay in the northern part of California, called Humboldt Bay, where several vessels were loading with timber for San Francisco. On one of these the lieutenant secured passage to San Francisco, and from there he secured passage to Astoria where he arrived after an invol- untary absence of six weeks.
In April, 1851, Lieutenant Woods was ordered with a detachment of men to the Dalles of the Columbia, east of the Cascade Range, where in the heart of the Indian country he commanded a small post for eighteen months, the only mili- tary post at the time and he the only commissioned officer between the Cascade Mountains and Fort Laramie.
In September, 1852, he returned to Fort Vancouver, which had now become a large post and headquarters for the Fourth United States Infantry, and at which place was then stationed several men since famous in history, among them Ulysses S. Grant. In February, 1853, Lieutenant Woods received orders to report to the superintendent of the recruiting service at New York City. He sailed February 10th, and reached his destination via San Francisco and Panama.
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