1862 September 13 Ridgeville, Md.

     Saturday,  Sept 13th/62

    We draw rations this forenoon
a number from the Regt
have been taken for guards,
for the Citizens.  Maryland
and Virginia, there is some
difference.  This being a loyal
state we have to guard the
Citizens property.  I pity that
old Clock tinker if he was
in Virginia and I should
come upon any of his
property.  I should not
have much mercy for him.

This is the last entry in Woods' diary. He was wounded shortly thereafter, either at South Mountain on the 14th or Antietam the 16th or 17th.

 Ephraim A. Wood, a twenty-year-old from West Needham, Massachusetts, enlisted on 29 June 1861 as a Private.  On 16 July 1861, he mustered into “C” Co., MA 13th Infantry.  He was discharged for wounds on 18 November 1862 at Harrisburg, Pa.  On 20 July 1863, he was commissioned a First Lieutenant and joined “H” Co., Massachusetts 55th Infantry.  He was discharged on 20 November 1863.  

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 12021