 She also served as Lady Principal and Matron.She was later re-hired by the university in 1866 following a nearly one year closure because of the civil war.After the Civil War, in 1868, Woodson began teaching in a new school for black girls established by the Freedmen's Bureau in Hillsboro, North Carolina.Though millions of black Southerners began to move to the North after the Civil War to escape violence in the South, Woodson was determined to educate the children of the freedmen.