Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' magazine
dated March, 1907.
VENERABLE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
Doubtless one of the oldest of Confederate
soldiers now living is MR. JAMES WOOD, of South Carolina, who was born
November 26, 1812. He is therefore now in his 95th year and retains his
faculties of memory to a remarkable degree. MR. WOOD was reared on a farm
in Spartanburg District and pursued farming until a few years past. He is
a typical South Carolina gentleman, dignified, and of strict integrity,
possessing those noble qualities which make him friends where ever known.
As a man, he is honorable and pure; as a father, affectionate and kind, as
a soldier, he was faithful and brave. He now resides at Pacolet, S.C. with
a daughter, MISS T.E. WOOD. His other surviving children are; MRS. ATLANTA
BRYANT, of Pacolet; MRS. SALLIE LIPSCOMB, of Gaffney; MRS. R.A. BROWN,
of Cowpens; and Messrs. A.N. and MOSES WOOD of Gaffney, both of whom
served in the Confederate army.
Comrade Wood was given his Cross of Honor in
January, 1904, by the Spartanburg Chapter, U.D.C. and worn it continually
since then. He served in Company A, 7th South Carolina Reserves; its third
lieutenant at the close of the war.
