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Memoir 3, Page 113, After the War

"A secret understanding between a number of us, who were thus inside the rebel lines and some of the Union troops an armistice was partially obtained"

While this memoir ends with Woods’ service digging trenches for the Confederate army in August 1864, this was not the end of his experience of the Civil War. Woods was able to escape to Union lines while on duty digging around Atlanta, making his way to New York and enlisting in the Union Army in early September 1864. He then served as a clerk for the Union Army through the end of the war. While his other journals in this collection do reveal a bit of information about his life after the war through 1873, he disappears from the record until his wife’s death in 1885, followed by his remarriage to Pennsylvania native Mae Laverall Woods on January 19, 1885. At some point, Woods moved to Lawrence County, Missouri with his first wife and died there on March 5, 1901. He is buried alongside both of his wives and daughter, Ella Woods, in the Woodland Cemetery near Springfield, Missouri.