Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Woods, Samuel T.  May 6, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): July 27, 1864
Killed in the battle of the Wilderness, on Saturday, May 6th, 1864, Mr. Samuel T.
Woods, son of John Woods, Esq., of Snowden Twp., Allegheny County, Pa., aged 21
years, 3 months, and 18 days. He was killed almost instantly, perhaps by some rebel
sharpshooter. This brave and patriotic young man was prosecuting his College studies
at Canonsburg, with interest and profit; was in his junior year, and, as we suppose,
having the ministry in prospect, when he heard the earnest and loud call of his
bleeding country, and made an immediate resolve to go forth in her defense as well
as of the principles of well regulated liberty, against tyranny and a rebellion the
most atrocious and wicked the world has ever seen. He had been for some seven years
an upright and worthy member of Bethel church, and the grand son of her second
pastor. His death was sudden and solemn, painful and distressing in the extreme to
his father, stepmother, brother and sisters...

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