CDV image of Woodward in the uniform of a Lieutenant Colonel. He is posed seated in a chair slightly turned to his right. He wears a dark frock coat with Lieutenant Colonel shoulder straps and matching dark trousers.

The image is clear with great contrast. There is some light to moderate surface dirt around the edges.

The reverse has a photographer’s imprint for E. & H. T. ANTHONY…NEW YORK-FROM A BRADY NEGATIVE. There is also a collector’s ID in pencil but the ID is confirmed by an on-line image.

John Blackburne Woodward was born May 31, 1835. On April 23, 1861 at the age of 26 he was commissioned a 2^nd Lieutenant in Company G, 13^th New York Infantry. At the time of his commissioning he was living in Brooklyn. The regiment was assigned to duty in Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland and was mustered out on August 6, 1861.

On May 28, 1862 Woodward was again commissioned but this time as Lieutenant Colonel of the 13^th. The regiment was assigned to the 7^th Corps and served at Suffolk, Virginia and was mustered out on September 12, 1862.

Woodward was commissioned for the last time on June 20, 1863. This time he was Colonel of the 13^th. The regiment was sent to Harrisburg during the Gettysburg campaign and served there as part of The Department of the Susquehanna. Woodward, along with his regiment, was mustered out at Brooklyn, New York on July 21, 1863.

The “HISTORY OF THE 13^th REGIMENT N. G. S. N. Y.” say of him:

“General John B. Woodward was born in Brooklyn in 1835 and since 1850 he has been engaged in South American trade. In 1854 he enlisted in the Brooklyn City Guard, Company G, of the Thirteenth Regiment He rose rapidly through all the intermediate grades to be Colonel of that Regiment in 1863. Five years later he succeeded Major-General H. B. Duryea in the command of the Second Division of the State National Guard. In 1875 he was appointed Inspector General of the State, in 1879 Adjutant General, and in 1880 he retired from the service and has since been actively connected with the prominent interests of Brooklyn. General Woodward served in the War of the Rebellion with the Thirteenth Regiment in 1861 as Second Lieutenant, and for three months in 1862 as Lieutenant Colonel. In 1888 he was appointed President of the Department of Brooklyn Parks, holding the office for one year. At present General Woodward is President of the Third National Bank, a director of the Commercial Mutual Insurance Company, the Guardian Insurance Company, Franklin Trust Company and Franklin Safe Deposit Company; Vice-President of the Birkbeck Saving and Loan Association and a director and trustee in other industrial corporations. As President of the Brooklyn Institute he was instrumental in changing that corporation into the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Brooklyn Club and the Riding and Driving Club.”

John B. Woodward died on March 7, 1896 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

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