The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1864-09-16
The Cnrecr Of a l:uerrIlla.

A quarter OF century since the writer OF this
used To Dolly q bright, curly-hsaied 10y, OF
senc eight or ten years Of arc, playing under tho
proudyarching elins In front Of has father resi-
dcncc In the Tontine Block, tscing the Green, IN
New Haven, Connecticut This was the second son
Of the late Thomas Green Woodward, the large
hearted editor Il the New Haven HERALD.
Through his fathers influence = cadets warrant
was procured for young Woodward, and he entered
the Military Academy ut West Point, IRON the New
Haven District His immediate predecessors from
the same district were Colonel Trei Myers " the
Quarierrn nster's Department., General Horsto q.
Wright, General Henry Benhsn, aud at an earlier
| date, Y n. Mansfield, Fol Commissioner If Sta-
| tsiics for Ohio. Some sixteen years since. one
night while cndeavoring to quell a disturbance
| occaroned by party OF rowdy students Tutor
Dwight, Of Yale College. received a mortal hlow
| from unknown bend, with the iron bar Of n
| W niow shutter lie fingered q short time. aud
died greatly arnenied for his extraordinory moral
| worth and fine intellect Young Wociv ard was
| ut this time ~ home on furlough, and according to
porular rumor, was the guilty party VITO dealt the
| fatal blow. How this may have been, we know
| not but he never returned to West P1.nt. and
disappeared alt sether from that section Of coun
try. Where he went WAS a mystery. II was re-
! p1r.el he Rad le't tho United States II now ap.
pears thS tc fcd ~ Y, plinsville IN southwestern
kentucky, figured there ~ schoolr e.ter, ana It
one tu1u eiiel the county pare. In AIgl-', lsGl,
lie raisei ne hrs' ard OIL" ret'l reg lent n "
county. year later, uer tine terF q 4. o.,
witt grfno - TIE re- rr''L re'urr"i = Hy's'f =
| vile. He r.ns ~ = lev we-,s- Iet. bro AZ
sogr re-e1''rel The town With ''r'y '''' and = ~
| = irlcc. H. ceri-Ar1"4 - srrrs1-sr. sis- - D."
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| ct,e-s ertsr = NED ~ s'rr@s, 20 lsct E41 VT
e.tt hundred ore rev r,rrri's- whlct >. rStf'f.
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t'rT.Hpus ts' rvny tie slNr'4 ; tie cIDi.s
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AID vsr. L'ai.. = yer - A. csyl ~ hey ..
temJtsd r:f; r-.sy-e Woodward failed " "a '
his men He r,,te vye'Ai rods IN afvsrre Il ms
band and ~ss ia be Ac' - firing his pstul when
he horse was shot, and he fell morally rolDa .d
On the very sp,t where ort,ber Let, al he halt
eli his men wen he cane Ia with General Buck
ner. lie was chrrie ell into sdjSeat store, AM,
after two hours 81 agony, expired. Thus died
young man of hr liant capacities, who might have
been an honor 10 his native State Bli hls early
career, 1t seems but too sadly pressged his igno
ninious tatorous end.
We find the above in one Of our exchanges, and
have few words 10 add in illustration OF the adIc,
that 'rhc boy IL father to the man" Young Wood
ward, for time was sent 10 tho Fpsc, pal a cadc
my at Cheshire, Connecticut, where he iuani!estct
IA boyhood those vicious traits that cxhibltct
themselves In manhood, Asa youth he VIA a Dc
cidcd guerrilla" and Ex-Governor footc tialhci
Of the late Almirap Omen ouplaiacd OF deprclt
lions committed by young Woodward with
his companions Tom bad reputation Tor y.,uU,
| ness aud violence seldom manifested ~ one r,
young. When his passions were reused hc did no
hesitate to use any weapon that came T. hand !
frequent were his encounters with scho5lmaics az,
village boy that the principal Of tie school VA
e finally obliged to ask his parents to take h N away
o Ahcr the homicide referred to, Woodward went Il
Charleston, :. C., where he got INTO difficulty, wa
= shot and wounded. II lied T. Tex $, and fro /!
J, settled IN Kentucky. HIS subsequent career, a
g ahovo n'rratel' "a in accordance with his youthful
n ''Arae'o' a1d many Of his companions, who vii
4 read this recount Of Woodwaru's death. car tca
@ witness that rs carly exploits dtly ended in VIC
| lont uealh at IIOy slusyIlls. kenuieEu