Having recently come of age (seventeen or eighteen), Lewis W. Woodall enlisted in U.S. service at Stevenson AL, Nov. 25, 1863. The 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry had been stationed at Caperton's Ferry AL for some time, and perhaps young Woodall became acquainted with members of that command. He appears on the 1860 census as a farm laborer in the household of Thomas Wilson, a resident of Bellefonte in Jackson County.

Other Woodall men living in Jackson County AL either enrolled in Confederate service or remained a civilian during the war. I don't find Lewis (or Louis) Woodall on any other U.S. census.

Anyone born in 1850 or later is really too young to have been considered for military service, even late in the war. In my personal opinion, a child who had just turned six at the time of Lincoln's election and barely ten years old when Lee surrendered cannot be numbered among the Woodall "men."