Mark Wood: Medal of Honor Recipient of the 21st Ohio Infantry
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Exciting news today from Orlando, Florida where the Medal of Honor presented to Corporal Mark Wood of Co. C, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry was discovered in a home under renovation in Florida. Corporal Wood was a member of Andrews' Raiders, a group of Union soldiers dispatched on a mission in April 1862 to go behind Confederate lines into northern Georgia. Their mission was to destroy railroad bridges leading north from Atlanta to Chattanooga. The mission was ultimately a failure: the Raiders were captured and eight of them, including their leader James Andrews of Kentucky, were executed. Corporal Wood, in company with his Co. C comrade John "Alf" Wilson, made their escape back to Union lines. Lieutenant Mark Wood from a photo dating from 1864- note that he is wearing the Medal of Honor in this image. His Medal of Honor citation reads: "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor t