The Diaries of Ralph Leland Goodrich, 1859-1867

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July 1, 1865

In pm to see Capt. Syberg. He wants me & him to go together & open a school here.

July 4, 1865

Grand celebration. A soldier for the 1st Kansas gave me a horse to go out to the [Federal] Arsenal where the speaking was.

July 20, 1865

Stop at State House. [Capt.] Cole [1] said he had been trying to get me appointed as Justice of the Peace.

July 25, 1865

I have shot [at a job] up at theatre.

July 28, 1865

I went on a drunk at Mrs. Boyle’s. Paid two dollars.

 

[1]    This is the first reference to Capt. Charles H. Cole in Goodrich’s diary. It appears that Cole had some official position in the military government established in Little Rock, perhaps associated with the employment of contraband and the distribution of aid through the Freedman’s Bureau. It is believed that Cole later (in 1870) became a Deputy U. S. Marshal in Little Rock. Goodrich and Cole would eventually marry Connett sisters and thus become brother-in-laws.

 

 

The Ralph Goodrich Collection is the property of the Arkansas History Commission.