Alexander Charles Woodall

Alexander Charles Woodall

• Alexander Charles Woodall was born on 17 April 1833 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
• Alexander Charles Woodall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Alabama, enumerated next to the Penitentiary, boarding in the household of Isabella Murrah.
• He was a lawyer, according to the 1860 census.
• He served as a lieutenant from 1861 to 1864 in Company D, 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA.
• On Thursday, 29 January 1863, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Sent Bob to Huntsville with $350 to Wmr T Robinson to pay money borrowed by Campbell Wood, $150 of Lt Woodall & George Grant $200 in Virginia."
• He married Augusta Brockenbrough Fitzhugh on 17 September 1863 in Richmond, Virginia.
• The following appeared on 3 July 1875 in The Galveston Daily News: (Huntsville, July 2, 1875) The surviving members of the Hood Brigade present at the reunion met in the Cough House at 8 A. M.
       . . . Fifth Texas -- P. J. Goree, H. G. Hame, J. W. Neighbors, L. J. Goree, Jim A. Dickie, T. A. Birdwell, T. A. Bowden, A. C. Woodall, W. G. Smith, W. R. Rome, W. J. Smither, J. G. Burden, Robert Burns, W. W. Alston, Calhoun Kearse, J. H. Parker, M. A. Lamplain A. S. Martin, E. M. Berry, James B. Assek Goree, W. P. Wilson, W. G. Coleman, Berry Hicks, W. I. Sandel, R. A. Brantley, L. A. Cox, A. M. Pinson, F. M. Polland, W. J. Towns, A. J. Decapie, W. B. Campbell, L. Gillam, R. a. Park, F. A. Charles, E. J. Adickes, Walter Keenan, C. T. Hull, R. S. Neblett, Jeff C. Hayson, Wm. T. Hill and A. T. Hill, Gen. J. B. Robertson and Capt. Thos. J. Goree, of Longstreet's staff.
       . . .
       Judge Benton Randolph welcomed them to the hospitalities of Huntsville in a short speech.
       . . .
       Norman Kittrell, Esq., of Galveston, replied on behalf of the Lone Star Rifles and did himself and his comrades credit.
       General Robertson closed the speech-making, when the soldiers and ladies were invited to dinner.
       The people of this vicinity had a profusion of everything good, prepared invitingly, and the guests did it ample justice. It was a good, old-fashioned out-of-doors barbecue and dinner.
       The veterans will meet nowhere in the State with a heartiereception than this of to-day.
• The following appeared on 20 September 1883 in The Galveston Weekly News: (Huntsville, Sept. 17) The fifth scholastic session of the Sam Houston Normal institute opened at 9 o'clock this morning. One hundred and twenty-one students have been enrolled. It is expected that the matriculants will reach 200 at the opening exercises to-morrow, a number largely in excess of last year's attendance. After a service of song, led by Mrs. Reynolds, of the faculty, Rev. W. B. Rankin, of Austin, followed with a reading of the Scriptures, prayer and a brief but practical and eloquent address to the students. He urged them to have faith in themselves, faith in humanity and faith in God.
       President Baldwin then delivered the address of welcome, after which he viewed perspectively the work and course of study for the coming year. He adverted indirectly to the progress of Texas in educational matters by the recent adoption of the constitutional amendments. The people of Texas had placed their State in the very front rank of the educational movement. In ten years we will occupy a position in advance of Massachusetts. The institute has not, it is thought, had so hopeful an outlook since its organization. The unparalleled liberality of the State government in providing these facilities for thorough training of professional teachers is being appreciated, and the young gentlemen and ladies who go out from this institution to contribute to the growth and culture of their State will be the best artuments for its wisdom. The faculty have begun their work with earnest endeavors. Their integrity and faithfulness in the past are the pledges that they will be true to their trust in the future.
       The public free schools opened this morning with a large attendance. We have secured the service of Judge A. C. Woodall as superintendent, and Huntsville can now boast of being the educational center of the State.
• Alexander Charles Woodall died on 27 April 1898 at age 65 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
• He was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 30 Jan 2013