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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | John Taylor Wood (1830-1904) was a United States and Confederate naval officer. He was the grandson of Zachary Taylor and nephew of Jefferson Davis. The collection includes correspondence and diaries (in part microfilm). Included are descriptive letters, 1858-1860, from John Taylor Wood to his wife, Lola (MacKubin) Wood, written from Key West, Fla., France, Italy, Greece, and other places, and while at sea; diary, 1860-1861, of family life and public events while a professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and on his Maryland farm, including events leading to his resignation and concerning the Union's preparations for war; letters to his wife while in the Confederate Navy on Virginia rivers, discussing daily life, battles, and wanton destruction by Union forces; diary, April-July 1865, while he accompanied Jefferson Davis from Richmond and then escaped to Cuba and Canada; brief narrative by General John Cabell Breckinridge, who was with Wood on the escape to Cuba (typed copy); scattered letters received, 1865-1904, at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and a family history and scrapbook (microfilm). |
Creator | Wood, John Taylor. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2010
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John Taylor Wood (1830-1904) was a United States and Confederate naval officer. He was the grandson of Zachary Taylor and nephew of Jefferson Davis.
Back to TopIn part, microfilm. Correspondence and diaries. Included are descriptive letters, 1858-1860, from John Taylor Wood to his wife, Lola (MacKubin) Wood, written from Key West, Fla., France, Italy, Greece, and other places, and while at sea; diary, 1860-1861, of family life and public events while a professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and on his Maryland farm, including events leading to his resignation and concerning the Union's preparations for war; letters to his wife while in the Confederate Navy on Virginia rivers, discussing daily life, battles, and wanton destruction by Union forces; diary, April-July 1865, while he accompanied Jefferson Davis from Richmond and then escaped to Cuba and Canada; brief narrative by General John Cabell Breckinridge, who was with Wood on the escape to Cuba (typed copy); scattered letters received, 1865-1904, at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and a family history and scrapbook (microfilm).
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1858 |
Folder 2 |
1859 |
Folder 3 |
1860, 1862 |
Folder 4 |
1865-1869 |
Folder 5 |
1872-1878; 1884-1889 |
Folder 6 |
1890-1915 |
Folder 7 |
Volume 1: John Taylor Wood diary, 1 January 1860-10 January 1861 |
Folder 8 |
Volume 2: John Taylor Wood diary, 11 January-6 September 1861 |
Folder 9 |
Volume 3: John Taylor Wood diary, 2 April-16 July 1865 |
Folder 10 |
John Taylor Wood diary, typed transcription |
Reel M-2381/1-3
M-2381/1M-2381/2M-2381/3 |
Volumes 4-5Volume 4 consists of undated family notes. Volume 5 is a scrapbook, 1848-1893. |