The Capture of a Slaver (English Edition)

About Wood: John Taylor Wood (August 13, 1830 – July 19, 1904) was an officer in the United States Navy who, due to his Southern sympathies, resigned after the American Civil War started and joined the Confederate forces. He became a leading Confederate naval hero as a captain in the Confederate Navy. Wood was the son of Robert Crooke Wood, an Army surgeon, and Anne Mackall Taylor, daughter of the future U.S. President Zachary Taylor and his wife Margaret Mackall Smith