Gethro "General" Wood
submitted by Marc Chase, The Times of Northwest Indiana
Gethro G. Wood
Private
Company H
1st Tennessee and Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry
1844-1927
Oak Hill Cemetery, Hammond, Indiana
Though his headstone indicates he fought for the 1st Alabama Cavalry, a Confederate unit, military records show Wood actually fought for the 1st Tennessee and Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry, a Union unit made of up southern men loyal to the northern cause. An Alabama native, Wood moved to Indiana with his wife Martha sometime following the war. Though he lived in Hammond in the early 1900s, Wood died in a Danville, Illinois, home for disabled veterans in 1927, and his body was shipped back to Hammond, Indiana, for burial. Listed as a widower in records from the home, Wood had about $9 left to his name at the his time of death.
