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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Taylor Wood Papers, #2381, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1941

Additional Descriptive Resources

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2010

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture--Maryland--History--19th century.
• American Confederate voluntary exiles--Canada.
• Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875.
• Confederate States of America. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Navy--Sea life.
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Diaries.
• Florida--Description and travel.
• France--Description and travel.
• Greece--Description and travel.
• Italy--Description and travel.
• Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States Naval Academy--Faculty--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Navy--Sea life--History--19th century.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wood family.
• Wood, John Taylor.

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.

In 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).

• Microfilm (M-2381/1-3)