WOOD, MARK
Rank and Organization: Private, Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry. Place and
Date: Georgia, April 1862. Entered Service At: Portage, Ohio. Birth:
England. Date Of Issue: September 1863.
Citation:
One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians), who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or
Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad
train at Big Shanty, Ga., and attempted to destroy the bridges and track between
Chattanooga and Atlanta.
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