Urban Andrain Woodbury (July 11, 1838 – April 15, 1915) was an American Civil War veteran, an entrepreneur and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.

In 1861, Woodbury enlisted in the Union Army for the American Civil War and quickly rose to first sergeant of Company H, 2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment.

After his wartime service, Woodbury became a resident of Burlington, Vermont and embarked on a long career in the lumber business.

[5] Woodbury intended on a career as a physician, but he never practiced medicine because he decided to enlist in the Union Army for the American Civil War.

[1] He fought at the July 21 First Battle of Bull Run, where he lost his right arm after being struck by a fragment from an exploding artillery shell, thus becoming Vermont's first Empty Sleeve.

[1] In November 1862, Woodbury accepted a commission as a captain and was assigned as commander of Company D, 11th Vermont Infantry.

[10] During the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodbury was appointed to the United States Military Academy's Board of Visitors.

[9] His other fraternal associations included IOOF, Grand Army of the Republic, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, General Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, and Knights of Pythias.

[1] Woodbury was also an early member of the Green Mountain Club which was established at a meeting in the Van Ness House in 1910.

[6] Woodbury became ill in early 1915, and in February he traveled to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan to seek a cure.

[9] He had several strokes soon after beginning a course of treatment, and when it was clear he would not recover, Woodbury asked to be brought back to Burlington so he could pass his final days at his own home.

[1] Gertrude Woodbury (1872–1962) was the wife of George M. Powers, who served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.