James H. (James Harvey) Wood

Born in 1842, James Harvey Wood served as captain of Company D, 37th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. He later wrote a concise memoir, The War, based on his own recollections and records he had gathered, presenting the conflict in an unadorned, firsthand style.

Wood appears to have spent much of his life connected to Scott County, Virginia, and later worked in the legal profession. The surviving record available online is fragmentary, so many details of his personal life are less widely documented than his wartime service.

Today, he is remembered mainly through his memoir and through historical and genealogical records that preserve his role as a Confederate officer. For listeners interested in eyewitness Civil War writing, his work offers a compact and personal perspective rather than a sweeping history.