Only One Battle

Union Colonel Alfred M Wood enlisted on April 4^th 1861 in the 84^th New York Infantry, also known as the 14^th Brooklyn.

Alfred M Wood was born April 19^th 1825.  On April 13^th 1858 he was made the Colonel of the 14^th New York Militia.

When the Civil War started Wood enlisted in Brooklyn, New York on April 4^th 1861 for three years’ service in the 84^th New York Infantry, which is better known as the 14^th Brooklyn.  He was wounded and captured at the First Battle of Manassas; where Wood led his regiment in two attempts to capture Henry Hill.  It was during this attack that Confederate General Thomas J Jackson, whom the 14^th was charging against, gave the Regiment its nick name of the “Red Legged Devils”.  Wood would be exchanged and returned to duty.  Do to the wounds he received at Manassas, Wood was discharged on October 18^th 1861.

Wood became the Mayor of the city of Brooklyn in 1864.  After the war ended he spent a great deal of time helping the veterans of his old regiment the 14^th Brooklyn.  Wood died July 28^th 1895, and is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, Nassau, New York.

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