Gilbert Woodworth, a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted and mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861, as a private; he was promoted to corporal on April 8, 1862.

The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized from July 1861 to January 1862 at Leavenworth, Kansas; the regiment fought in the 1863 battles of Helena and Pine Bluff, and the 1864 battles of Lexington, Little Blue River, Independence, Byram’s Ford, Westport, Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, Marmiton River, and Newtonia.

Woodworth was mustered out of service on August 11, 1864, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31776