. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . and Sheridans Richmond raids, Winchester, Five Forks,and Appomattox. He was appointed cadet at the United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point, after competitive examinationtherefor in his Congressional district, June, 1866, andwas graduated,.June, 1870, with the standing of numbersix in a class of fifty-eight members. He was then com-missioned second lieutenant in the Eighth Cavalry ; firstlieutenant July 31, 1873, and captain January 20, was aide-de-camp to Major-General Schofield fromJune, 1879, to November, 1882,
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . and Sheridans Richmond raids, Winchester, Five Forks,and Appomattox. He was appointed cadet at the United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point, after competitive examinationtherefor in his Congressional district, June, 1866, andwas graduated,.June, 1870, with the standing of numbersix in a class of fifty-eight members. He was then com-missioned second lieutenant in the Eighth Cavalry ; firstlieutenant July 31, 1873, and captain January 20, was aide-de-camp to Major-General Schofield fromJune, 1879, to November, 1882, and has been assistantprofessor of French, and also of Spanish, at the UnitedStates Military Academy, and instructor in French,Spanish, and English. 47- OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY regular). COMMANDER GEORGE WORTHINGTON WOOD, Commander George Worthington Wood was bornin the city of Dublin, Ireland, in May, 1S43. He wasappointed a midshipman from the State of Pennsylvaniain 1859, and remained at the Naval Academy, Annapolis,until 1861. At the breaking out of the Civil War hewas sent to the frigate St. Lawrence, in the NorthAtlantic Squadron. He was present when that shipdestroyed the privateer Petrel, off Charleston. In 1862 he was attached to the steam-sloop Oneida,in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, which ship wasdetailed on six different occasions to draw the fire of fortsand batteries below New Orleans from the mortar-vesselswhich were then bombarding the forts. He commandedthe after eleven-inch gun on one of these occasions, whenit was disabled, and more than half its crew killed orwounded. Served at the passage of Forts Jackson andSt. Philip, the destruction of the Confederate flotilla andtransports, and the capture of the Chalmette howitz
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