Left Behind

Thomas Wood, born in Fairfax, Virginia, was twenty-two when he enlisted in the U.S. Military on June 3, 1847, to fight in the Mexican-American War. He reenlisted numerous times until the Board of Medical Survey deemed him too worn out to continue serving. He received his final honorable discharge on November 27, 1881. Wood decided to head to San Francisco, even though he didn’t have a home, a job…