The First Woods saw little combat during the Third Battle of Winchester, but nearby areas along the front were filled with activity as men of Grover's, Dwight's, and Thoburn's Union divisions formed for attacks across the Middle Field, Union generals rallied the broken Nineteenth Corps, and field hospitals were established to care for the wounded. More than 5,000 men were wounded in the battle, and before they could be moved to proper hospitals in and around Winchester, many limped, crawled, or were carried to improvised field hospitals, including one along Red Bud Run 250 yards ahead. Capt. Ira B. Gardner of the 14th Maine, wounded in the arm in the Second Woods, walked back across the Middle Field to the Red Bud Run hospital and soon joined about 300 wounded men at the nearby home of Charles L. Wood, where his arm was amputated near the shoulder, wrapped in cloth, placed in a box, and buried in the yard. Thirty years later, Gardner returned and was told that Mr. Wood had unearthed the arm and reburied it in Winchester National Cemetery. The Wood family, like many others living near the battle, lost cattle, harvest, fences, linens, and much else, never fully recovered, and eventually lost its land as well.
