Robert Crooke Wood

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1799-09-23

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1869-03-28

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"Robert Crooke Wood" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018032, (accessed April 29, 2025).

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Washington, D.C., assistant surgeon general. Newport County, Rhode Island, native. Son of John Wood and Rebecca Wickham Wood. Married to Ann Taylor Wood at Fort Snelling, Michigan Territory, in 1829. Father of John Taylor Wood, Robert Crooke Wood, Sarah Knox Wood, and Nina Wood Grabow. Graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, New York County New York, in 1821. Physician in Utica, Oneida County, New York, from 1821-1825. Served in the Untied States Army as an assistant surgeon, surgeon (major), and assistant surgeon general (colonel) from 1825 through December 31, 1865. Stationed in the Michigan Territory, Florida, New York, Texas, Mexico, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Resident of Washington, D.C., in 1860. Employed James Polkitz, Elizabeth Polkitz, and Elizabeth Chase as servants in Washington, D.C., in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Washington, D.C in 1860. Served as the United States Army director of medical affairs in the Department of the West from June 14, 1862 to October 31, 1865. Subsequently brevetted to brigadier general.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington Ward 1, p. 355.
Eight Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Slave Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington Ward 1, p. 30B.
"General Taylor's Daughter's Will,"New Orleans Republican(New Orleans, LA), May 26, 1877, p. 4.
Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 1055.
Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendents of William Brewster of the “Mayflower,” Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church Which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1906), 357.
James M. Phalen, Robert Crooke Wood, Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Carlisle, PA: Army Medical Bulletin, 1939), 92-95.
"Dr Robert Crooke Wood (1799-1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial #71161491, accessed July 7, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71161491.

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