William E. Woodruff (soldier)

Woodruff was given temporary brigade and division command in the Army of the Cumberland, but not promoted to brigadier general.

He studied law, passed his bar exam, and established a successful practice in Louisville.

He was captured at the Battle of Scary Creek in western Virginia in 1861 and imprisoned for nine months in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.

He led a brigade in Jefferson C. Davis's division at the Battle of Stones River in late 1862.

He fell from his horse and fractured his right ankle and badly damaged his right knee, incapacitating him for several months.