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| | William Burnham Woods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | WOODS, William Burnham, soldier, born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, 3 August, 1824; died in Washington, D. C., 14 May, 1887. |
 | | Upon leaving the army, Gen Woods engaged in cotton -planting in Alabama, resuming at the same time the practice of law, and taking an active part in the reconstruction of the state, of which he became chancellor in 1868. |
 | | He was familiarly known in the army as "Susan Wood," a name that had been applied to him when he was a cadet at the military academy. |
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