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[[Titian Ramsay Peale]], who had been experimenting with photography,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2012/02/titian-ramsay-peale-washington-dc-in-collodion.html|title=Titian Ramsay Peale: Washington, D.C., in collodion|date=2012-02-21|website=National Museum of American History|language=en|access-date=2019-11-27}}</ref> introduced Meigs to Wood on May 13, 1856, and Meigs hired Wood the next day.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1gTewpJMn4C&pg=PA250|title=Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War|last=Gugliotta|first=Guy|date=2012-02-28|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-6922-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2c6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61|title=The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army|last=O'Harrow|first=Robert|date=2017-10-24|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-7193-3|language=en}}</ref>
 
Wood went on to be aan [[American Civil War]] photographer, contributing to [[Alexander Gardner (photographer)|Alexander Gardner's]] book ''Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War'' along with [[Photographers of the American Civil War#James F. Gibson|James F. Gibson]].<ref name="cornell">{{cite web | title=Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Images by Photographer. | website=Welcome &#124; Rare and Manuscript Collections | url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/7milVol/photographers.html#wood | access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> He also photographed maps during the war for [[George B. McClellan|General George McClellan]].<ref name="Time 1970" />
 
According to Roy Meredith's ''Mr. Lincoln’s Cameraman'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady|last=Meredith|first=Roy|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|year=1946|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> [[Mathew Brady|Matthew Brady]] himself personally accompanied General [[George B. McClellan]]’s [[Peninsula campaign|Peninsular Campaign]] into Virginia at the beginning of April 1862, departing Fortress Monroe with Gibson, [[Photographers of the American Civil War#David B. Woodbury|David B. Woodbury]], and John Wood, plus two mobile darkrooms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com/Personages.html|title=Fort Moultrie, SC, Personages|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> Photographer George Barnard was also sent along by Gardner, who had been managing Brady's Washington studio.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Terrible Fascination:' Civil War Photography and the Advent of Photographic Realism|last=Ruminski|first=Jarret|publisher=Youngstown State University, M.A. in History Thesis|year=1970|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>