Pliny Wood (Lieutenant)

Pliny Wood

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Place of Birth

Place of Marriage

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Biography

Early life

Lieutenant Pliny Wood (parents unidentified) was born 1819 in Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York. He married Elizabeth Dove (born 1825) of Fairfax, Virginia June 17, 1845 at the US Naval Yard in Washington, DC. By 1850 Pliny and Elizabeth had removed to Westfield, Massachusetts.

Children

Harriet M. (March 25, 1846), Florence E. (January 04, 1848), Lillian N. (October 24, 1849), Mayo Augustus (August 09, 1851), Ernest Pliny (January 30, 1856), Denton George (July 25, 1860)

Occupation

He was a painter and a whip-maker. At the time he joined The Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry in 1862, he had been working as a mechanic.

Military

Pliny enlisted from Westfield, Massachusetts as first sergeant of Company F. Promoted to second lieutenant Jan. 2, 1862, and first lieutenant May 2, 1863.

He was injured severely at Roanoke Island, but returned to service, running the enemy's battery that he might join his regiment then under blockade at Washington, N. C. With twenty men he captured an equal number of rebel cavalry, with their horses, arms and equipment, above Plymouth, N. C., and measured strength with one of the enemy at Gun Swamp.

When he received his fatal wound, he was with his men in the thickest of the battle, then calmly said to Capt. Moore, "They’ve got me, Captain!” The cannon ball penetrated his left leg, requiring a socket amputation, which proved fatal May 31st.

References

Bearing Arms in the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War, 1861-1865, by William P. Derby Published: Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1883

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850

United States Federal Census 1850 1860 1870

Washington, District of Columbia Vital Records

North Carolina Vital Records

Bearing Arms in the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment:Google Books