LICKING COUNTY OHIO
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Transcribed by Deb.


"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Licking County
Page 88

     Charles Robert Woods, his brother was born in Newark, February 19, 1827, 
and died there, February 26, 1885.  He graduated at West Point, served on the 
frontier till the outbreak of the war.  He was appointed Colonel of the 
Seventy-sixth O. V. I., October 13, 1861; was at Fort Donelson, and Shiloh; 
commanded a brigade at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.  He was promoted 
for bravery at Arkansas Post, and mustered out of the volunteer service in 1866, 
a brevet major-general.  He was familiarly called "Susan Woods" by the cadets of 
West Point, a sobriquet which clung to him in the army.  He was a gallant and 
faithful officer and participated in every skirmish or battle in which his 
command engaged.  General Sherman once spoke of him as a "magnificent officer."