Caroline County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Woodford, General William 
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Author: Henry Howe

William Woodford Bio in Caroline county section of Henry Howe's Historical
Collections of Virginia, page 215.
Caroline, p.214-215


General William Woodford, a revolutionary officer of high merit, was born in
Caroline. He early distinguished himself in the French and Indian war. Upon the
assembling of the Virginia troops at Williamsburg in 1775, consequent upon the
hostile attitude of Lord Dunmore, he was appointed colonel of the second
regiment. In the military operations immediately subsequent, in that section of
the state, his name is honorably mentioned in history, particularly at the
battle of Great Bridge, fought Dec. 9th, upon which occasion he had the chief
command, and gained a signal victory over the enemy. He was finally promoted to
the command of the 1st Va. brigade, in which station he served through the war.
He was in various actions, in one of which, the battle of Brandywine, he was
wounded. He was made prisoner by the British in 1780, during the siege of
Charleston, and taken to New York, where he died on the 13th of that year, in
the 46th year of his age.

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