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James H. (James Harvey) Wood
A Confederate veteran whose writing preserves the grit and immediacy of life in the ranks, he is best known for a firsthand account of Stonewall Jackson’s campaigns and the 37th Virginia Infantry. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his memoir an even stronger sense of speaking directly from experience.
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The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them
by James H. (James Harvey) Wood
About the author
James H. Wood, identified in library records as James Harvey Wood, is the author of The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them. Public-domain and library sources link him closely to that Civil War memoir, a personal narrative centered on Confederate service and the Virginia Infantry.
Biographical information about him appears to be limited in widely available sources. A genealogy record indexed on the web identifies a James Harvey Wood of Scott County, Virginia, born in 1842 and died in 1917, which may fit the author of this memoir, but the detail is not well corroborated in major reference sources.
Because so little background is firmly documented online, Wood is remembered mainly through his book itself: a soldier’s-eye view of campaigning, battle, and regimental life that continues to interest readers of Civil War history.