They are expecting a great battle

We received yours mailed July 24th last week. Was great to hear that all were well. You are having much too much rain this summer that I should think it would make all discouraged of trying to live in that country… If your wheat should grow much before you can get it dry, it will not make very good bread, but a good deal better than no bread.

We are all at home today. It is very warm. Friday and Saturday were the warmest days we have had this summer and this morning it is very warm.

Mr. Casper [1], the peddler, came here yesterday. He has gone to the [Owego] village this morning. Tomorrow morning he goes to New York and from there he goes to Fortress Monroe to sell segars, tobacco, undershirts and socks to our soldiers [of Company H, 3rd New York Regiment]. It is dreadful to hear about them. Nathan Truesdale has not got home yet, but is not able to do much there. He has been sick a long time. [He] has had the mumphs. [I suppose you remember] Charles Narsh [whose mother] is a widow and lives near our back lot. [Charles] has cut cordwood for [your brother] Stephen and was a fine looking and healthy man. He enlisted [in Company H] but has been sent home and has the consumption. 77 went with Capt. [Isaac] Catlin’s Company [2] from here, and now they want between 30 & 40 to make the company complete. None have been killed, but what has become of them is what we would like to know. A few has been sent home. Ephraim Goodrich thinks there is not over 1 dozen able bodied men in Capt. Catlin’s Company, but perhaps he does not know. [Two of the 77 soldiers from Tioga County in Capt. Catlin's Company H were Privates Lyman Powell and Horace Hagadorn. To read a couple of their letters, click on the links above.]

Several young men started from Owego yesterday to go to Baltimore to [join] Capt. Catlin’s Company. They have left Fortress Monroe and are on their way to Washington. Perhaps we are going to have another battle today. The battle [of Bull Run] two weeks ago today was a dreadful one. [3] Some of our soldiers left their camping place with only a cracker to eat Saturday, marched all night and Sunday to the battlefield and fought all day with nothing to eat or drink. They suffered from hunger and thirst; some would put clay into their mouths to try to make their tongues moist. It is dreadful. We hear that there has been another battle in Western Missouri, but we have not seen it in print. [4] I am so sorry that [your brother] James has gone and [enlisted]. If he has gone on to where they are fighting, I do not think you will ever see him again. He did not know the hardships they have to endure, and the suffering. There is a letter in one of our papers from Dr. ______. He is appointed Surgeon. [5] He says if a wounded man wants ice water, it has to go through so many hands before he can get it that the man is dead before it arrives.

It has been a long time since I have written you but you know I have been journeying lately and that accounts in a measure for my long silence…

I am so sorry [our brother] James Goodrich has [enlisted]… I am glad Mrs. [Hannah] Pickett has been so kind to him. You know Ma has kindly cared for the stranger who has stayed with us hoping that her children far from home and among strangers would meet with like kindness from others. I should not think they would have accepted James if he is so deaf. He will see harder times now than he ever has before or even thought if the stories of the volunteers are to be believed. There can be no more volunteers raised from here. There were five or six angels, [Angelo] McCallum among them, started for Baltimore yesterday to join Catlin’s Company. They sent on for thirty to make up the company but they could only raise that number. I am afraid they will have to draft them before this war is ended.

I enjoyed my trip to Cato [New York] [6] very much as Ma has told you. The day we went was very warm but it was very pleasant on [Cayuga] lake. It did not seem half far enough. We started from Owego about six o’clock in the morning and Millie met me at Candor. It was delightful to me to be riding so quickly around the country in the cool of the evening. Of course the [steam]boat was waiting for the [railroad] cars else Capt. [Alfred] Goodrich [of Ithaca] would have had but few passengers up the lake that day. At Cayuga, the [railroad] cars were waiting and at half past seven we were in Auburn, just across the street from the gloomy walls of the State prison.

We went to the American Hotel and stayed until the Weedsport Stage went at four. That stage ride was not very pleasant. It was so hot & dusty, but it did not last long. We got to Mrs. Giles’s [at Weedsport] about six and stayed there until the next night, when a young man in the office took us down to Cato. We called at Mr. [James Jackson] Ferris’ but they were out on the lake and we kept on to [our cousin] Charles’ [home]. The next morning [our cousin] Mary [Ferris] came down & spent the day. The two families do not [get along] pleasantly together. I think Charles’ wife has a pretty sharp tongue and does not mind saying unpleasant things. They all enquired about you and sent love. Perhaps Mary will write to you. We went sailing & fishing on the lake, but not so often as I would have liked. I think it is very pleasant there.

Milly stayed half the time in Weedsport with her sister-in-law. Friday before we came home, Mr. [James] Ferris took Mary & I up to Mrs. [Catherine Sarah Mason] Giles’ [home] & he went to Syracuse on business. He missed the train he was to come home on & did not get back until one o’clock at night and Mary got up & they went home in the night. That night we went to a singing school concert. Mrs. Giles had no [trouble going] to Auburn Saturday morning with her horse & carriage. She is a very pleasant woman & they have such a beautiful place. She has two children. Her husband, Solomon Giles, is Capt. of the Cayuga Company & they only enlisted for three months in the United States service & their time is out. [7] [Mr. James] Ferris gave me a plain gold ring for my forefinger.

I read in Petersen’s Magazine [8] that as soon as gladiolas had done flowering they should be taken up and dried, and put in a paper bag and kept in a dry place and not freeze. It is so with all bulbous plants. We have dried nearly a coffee can full of raspberries. Made 1-quart currant jelly and 1-quart wine. Sugar is getting so dear we cannot preserve much. Everything we have to buy is high, but everything we have to sell is down to the lowest notch. Several apples back of the crib are getting ripe. There is 20 or 30 in the tree.

I think [your husband] James must have a wet time this summer going to his appointments. All send love. Ever your affectionate sister, -- Sarah [Goodrich]

Your letter to Sarah was received last week and when I sent my last letter to the [Post] Office, I had one brought from you & we had two from your brother. We are all usually well. It will be a warm day [but] it has been very smoky … on account of the fires all around us. I suppose you have heard about the fires [and] that a great part of Troy [New York] is burned. It caught fire about the middle of the bridge that crosses the Hudson – it was a railroad bridge. And there has been great fires in Long Island. It has been over 30 miles long. Mrs. White says that she thinks it is very near where Mr. [Grove N.] Pike’s people went. We have not seen any of your folks on the hill the last week.

Your father and I went over to the [Owego] village last Tuesday. We took over butter and could get only 14 cents a pound. We called at your Aunt Lucy [Fiddis’] and took her butter. They were well. Mr. Beebe’s three youngest girls had the scarlet fever. Lilly & Rosie was very sick – so Lucy said when we was there. Since then Rosie has died and was buried Friday. The girls have been to work a good deal in the yard the last week. Our yard is looking very well. Our white lilac is in bloom and the Herre Chestnut is budded.

Last Thursday morning Sarah Put came over here and said that Louis and she was coming to make us a visit that day. We told her we would like to have them come. Mrs. Bristol had invited us to go there that afternoon, but we staid at home for company, but they did not come. Louise [Goodrich] got started but met Frank Taylor and Eliza Goodale going to see her and she went back. We expected them Friday [but only] Sarah came. We heard that Louise had to work so hard & was so tired she would not walk, and they was so busy getting the corn ground that they would not stop to bring her down. They all think that Louise has done well [marrying Mr. E. B. Chadborne], except Bess & [Louise's sister] Rhoda. [Mr. Chadbourne] works with [Louise's brother] Jairus [Goodrich] and they live there. Aunt Eliza [Goodrich, Louise's mother,] says Louise will not ever go from there to live. She wants they should live with her, and some says [Mr. Chadbourne] appears as well and knows as much as her brother. His father is very well off. [He] is a merchant in Brooklyn. He sends him money and clothing.

1862 Marriage Certificate of Louise Goodrich & E. B. Chadbourne [or Chadborn]
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Our little peach trees are just in bloom and the pears and apple trees are full of blossom. Mr. [Wheeler] Bristol says we shall have another frost and that will kill the fruit but we hope not. If [your boys] Johnny and Willie lived where they could come and see us we would give them a basket full of apples today. I do not remember of having apples so late in summer before. We have pie plant. I made 4 pies of it last week. We made our soap more than a month ago and had good luck. Our house is all cleaned except the front room and the halls, which I think they will do this week if we can have soft water. We need rain very much. The ground is very dry. The corn will not come up unless we have rain and the feed does not grow.

Last Wednesday was my birthday. I was 57 years old. I am 20 years older than my mother was when she died and 8 years older than my father was. And your father is older than his father or mother was when they died.

I think you had a great deal of company for one day. It was very sad about that young minister dying. So was he buried at Lawrence? His wife will have to go back to her friends, will she not? I do not see anything about Curtis’s & Seiykes’ Regiments in any of our papers but they are having battles nearly all the time. I am sorry that [your brother] James has had to go away. There has been a great many wounded soldiers brought to New York the last two weeks.

Wednesday Morn. [Your brother] Stephen has got a Church book and goes to church. Last Sunday Mr. Charles F[rederick] Johnson ast him if Augusta had got home. I do not know [what] he meant. Yesterday Steve went up to the back lot to pile up cordwood and the girls went with him to see Mary [Griffing] Pike. They called to your Mother's. She could not go but Julie could if they would wait til she could get up and dressed. It must have been near 8 when they went and had a good visit. Found Mary washing. They have 4 cows. Mary says it is just as it used to be, now she cannot go when she wants to go. She has got to wash and churn and work. There farm is a good one and it is pleasant after you get there but I suppose it will be sold as soon as Mr. Pike can sell it. They all like it on Long Island so they write. After the girls went away, Charles Goodrich came here. He has been to town and around buying fat cattle and selling them to New York.

[We are] afraid for [your brothers] James & Ralph. Fanny says she has heard that Gen. Curtis is going on to Corinth [Mississippi] and that some of our troops were at Little Rock [Arkansas]. She says she should think that Ralph could get away. I do not know as I can send this today. Goodbye with love to all. [Your mother, -- Mary Ann Goodrich]

We did not receive any letter from you last week. It is a pleasant day. The girls and Stephen were going to church and got ready but Steve came with [our horse] Fan, and after they got in, she commenced backing till she got to a pile of parts and could not go any further. Sarah jumped out, your father came and started her forward, and Steve & Mary have gone – Mary on the back seat and Steve on the front seat. How they will get home is more than I know. Sarah has gone upstairs crying. It is too bad. I thought some of going today but if I had got ready, I should not have gone. It is not safe to go after Fan alone.

It is a sad day in town today. The children are having the sore throat. Mr. Fred Platt’s oldest little girl died yesterday morning. The funeral is to be at 4 o’clock today. Mr. [Albin] Rose, the baker, has lost his only child – a boy 5 or 6 years old -- [named Willie] died yesterday afternoon. The funeral is to be at 2 o’clock today. Mr. Cable’s little girl Lilly was dying last evening. Mr. [Timothy C.] Reed brought Mrs. [Sarah] Reed, [her daughters] Frank (Francis), and little Mary, and Mrs. Mosher to spend the day here yesterday and last night… He said Lilly Cable was just alive, and he heard that Mr. Samuel Archibald’s only son was dead, a brother of Georgia Archibald, & he said that Mr. Marvin Day, the butcher that married Mr. Rainsf__ daughter was very sick with the same disease. Mrs. Darrel Taylor is at Newark [New York] and is blind.

Friday Samuel [Griffing] went by here with his wife and Mary and we thought it was Kate. I suppose they was going to Newark. They went back just at dusk. We had a very good visit yesterday with the Reeds. Mrs. Reed, Frank, and Sarah & Mary went up into the woods for flowers, young wintergreens, and berries. We expected them Thursday but we had such a hard rain for 3 days that it would have been too wet to go into the woods, but Mary Mosher came Thursday. We invited Aunt Mary but she did not come.

Louise [Chadbourne] and her husband, and Aunt Eliza and Jed have had a falling out. Louise & her Brad have left her home. They are staying at [her brother] Herman’s but I think [her other brother] Jairus will let them go back again. Brad commenced making complaints over there a week ago. Said they did not use him well. Jed locked him out. One day last week they all went up to there to Aunt Jane’s. Brad locked the door and instead of putting the key in the place where they leave it when they all go so if one comes back first they will know where to get it, he put it in his pocket and at night when they came back he staid over at the panerama the rest came home but could not find the key. That began the ____, he talked bad and I suppose Jed did to. In the morning Jed [kicked] him out of the house but told Louise she could stay. They came up to Herman’s. Each had a bundle. We hear they are going to keeping house in Ephraim [Goodrich’s] old house. He does not know enough to get a living, but I think he knows nearly as much as his father did when he married such a woman that would not marry him unless she could turn his children all out for everybody else to care for. Everybody is talking about it and laughing & making fun of them.

Your father is not feeling very well today. I think he has taken some cold. They have had some hard battles last week and we read that our troops are at Little Rock. Is [your brother] James still at Fort Scott? I wish [your brother] Ralph could get away and go to Kansas, if he is living, or come home. I wish we could hear from him and from James too. It is growing cold. I have made a fire in our dining room. I fear we shall have another frost tonight. It has killed all our apples. Your father says we will not have any apples this summer.

Tuesday. [Your sister] Sarah is sick abed today but I think will be better tomorrow. Mr. Alvah Archibald [9] is buried today. Mr. Cable’s only child [10] was buried yesterday, and Mrs. Cable is very sick with the same disease. It is said that it is very sickly in Owego. Dr. [Ezekiel] Phelps is quite unwell. We have received your letter and magazine today. Our locust trees look as if they were dead – not a green leaf on them. We shall have a few strawberries if we do not have another frost. The moon will be eclipsed at 12 tonight. Shall you be up to see it? I think we shall.

I have just been reading yesterday’s [New York] Herald. They had a terrible battle near Richmond last week – over one thousand of our troops killed. [11] And they have taken Memphis so now our boats can go all the way to New Orleans. But they are expecting a great battle near Richmond soon, and if our troops gain the victory, the war people say will end soon. But if our troops get surrounded and cut off the southerners will march on to Washington and take that and then on and on they will go. If Ralph is living, I think we might hear from him… I hope you will hear from James Goodrich. With love to all. Goodbye. – [Your mother, Mary Ann Goodrich]

Your father & I have been to church today and I heard Mr. [David A.] Shepard [12] – he is presiding elder and is such a good preacher. We both liked him. Your father can understand him better than he can Mr. [George P.] Porter. [13] Your father is getting quite deaf and Mr. Porter does not speak out plain. The girls could not go. They had the promise of their bonnets last night, but did not get them. Sarah did not care much about it, but Mary felt very bad. Mrs. Kindman is doing up these bonnets. She told Mary that she could have them at 6 o’clock and Mary would have gone over yesterday afternoon but we had company. Frank Reed and Emma Hall came over and spent the day. They sent word that they were coming Thursday but it rained that day. We had a hard frost Monday morning – another Tuesday but not so hard.

Our waggon is mended. [Your brother] Stephen went for it last evening. It cost 4 or 5 dollars, I believe. I wrote you that Steve took up 3 of the boys that ran into us. They appeared before the Justice last Friday and they (the two boys) appealed it. One of the boys had run away & of the other two, one is Jessie Brink, Bill Brink’s son. And Steve thinks he will run away [too] before the trial comes on, which is put off till the second of July. Lawyer [John J.] Taylor told Steve that they must pay or go to jail.

I had a letter from your Uncle [Samuel] Rockwood [14] last week. He is now at Belvidere [Illinois. He] has resigned [from the army]. He says he cannot live so. He is too old a man to go into an army. He writes he is 57 years and such a set of men, officers, and all. They drink, gamble, curse and sware. He says there is no morality in the army. He did not go into Kansas [but] was in the southern part of Missouri. [He] told about being out in a thunderstorm in the night, the wind blowing, trees falling, they lying on the ground with there blankets around them and the canopy above them. It rained all night and they was wet as could be. Two of there horses were killed by the falling of trees. He took his [horse] into an open field. He must have been an officer or he could not have resigned, and he was getting over a hundred dollars a month. He thought he should come on east here and go to Massachusetts, but Government does not pay him yet and he cannot come. [His 19-year old daughter] Fanny [Augusta Rockwood] teaches 3 little girls in a Mr. Wood’s family in Chicago. He says he with Fanny spent an hour very pleasantly with Mrs. Shipman whilst they were stationed at Chicago. Mrs. Shipman told him that Mrs. Underwood spent a month or two with her last fall. Mrs. Shipman was engaged in the Quartermasters department. He says Col. [Albert G.] Brackett uses profane language; otherwise he would be a gentleman. The Major is a clergyman but he had seen him playing cards. A man by the name of Reese First Lieutenant in one of the Company’s when he first went into camp was one of the leaders in conducting prayer meetings. He says he was as fervent a man in his prayers and praises to one Heavenly Father as any one he ever saw but after a while he saw him elevated with distilled spirits and finally deserted, taking his horse, saber and pistols which belonged to the Government.

He wrote two sheets full, a long letter. He says a soldier’s life as he has experienced it has been the most loathsome life as he ever wishes to experience. He has not been in any battles. I would like to send you his letter but it is bulky. He says he had been sick 2 weeks, which caused him to hand in his resignation. He had been sent out with 2 companies under command of Major [Hector J.] Humphrey on a scout with 2 days provisions and were gone 4 days. 2 days they had to live on the secesh. He says it was very amusing the different receptions they met with. Some treated them kindly. Others were gruffy and insolent. They brought back to camp 8 prisoners & some arms. The first rifle they took he found under a fence where he was looking for corn for his horse. It was covered with corn and husks. It would have given him great pleasure to have gone and seen you & your husband, but as it was, could not.

Do you know where [your brother] James Goodrich is? General Curtis is going to Little Rock so we read. Your Aunt Lucy [Fiddis] has had a letter from a young man that worked in the shop that James did. He wrote that they left New Orleans in January and went up Red River 7 hundred miles from New Orleans, and 3 or 400 from Alexandria. [He says] that James ran a steamer up the river, but I believe he is at work there. James could not send a letter from where he is but got this man to write for him. Lucy was going to answer it that night and write to have him try to have something about Ralph. I hope we shall [receive] news from him and from James soon. Mr. Wells said the war was soon coming to an end. I hope so, but doubt it. No letter from you last week. Uncle Aner [Goodrich] [15] went up Friday and came home yesterday with Aunt Ruth [Stratton Goodrich]. Mrs. David Taylor has not come home yet. Samuel and his family went up to Newark Friday. It’s time to get supper. I thought if I went to writing today, the girls would write, but if I do not write you would not get many letters. And if I do not write Sunday, I cannot in the week. I have written this in such a hurry. I do not know as you can read it. [Your mother, -- Mary Ann Goodrich]

[1] Cusper (or Casper?) – research needed.

[2] Captain Isaac Smartwood Catlin, Co. H, 3rd Regiment, New York Volunteers.

[3] Battle of Manassas or Bull Run

[4] Battle of Wilson’s Creek

[5] Research needed.

[6] Sarah Goodrich was visiting her cousins, Charles W. Goodrich (b. 1814) and Mary Goodrich (b. 1818). They were the children of her father's brother, Cyprian Goodrich and his wife, Abigail Giles. Charles' wife was Electa L. Burke and Mary's husband was James Ferris. Both families lived in or near Cato, New York. Sarah's Aunt Abigail was probably related to Solomon Giles of Weedsport, with whose family she also visited during this trip, although Solomon was still absent from home serving with the 19th New York State Volunteers.

[7] Solomon Giles (b. 1822) was the District Attorney of Cayuga County from November 1856 to November 1859. When the Civil War broke out, he joined the 19th New York State Volunteers on May 22, 1861 as Captain of Company H (the "Cayuga Company"). This unit was mustered into the United States service for only three months. In December 1861, Solomon Giles was mustered into the 3d New York Light Artillery as Captain of Battery H. By January 23, 1862 was promoted to Major of the regiment which numbered 530 men. According to the History of Cayuga County 1789-1879, page 114, the regiment was "accompanied to Washington [D. C.] by Major Giles, where they arrived on the 21st of February [1862, and] joined the camp of the 'Old Nineteenth.' They were assigned to General William F. Barry, commanding the defenses of Washington, to Fort Corcoran, on Arlington Heights. This was one of the series of five forts on the west side of thye Potomac intended for the protection of the Capital. It was on the plantation of the Rebel General Lee, whose elegant and costly mansion was occupied for his headquarters by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart. It was an elevated, healthy, and in every way, a very pleasant location for an army. With the Sibley tents well floored, warmed and ventilated, the camp well laid out and supplied, the men of the 3d Artillery began a very agreeable military experience." Major Giles served with the regiment in North Carolina and resigned in May 1863.

Solomon Giles was married to Catharine Sarah Mason Giles. She was born in 1825 and died in 1897.

[8] The first issue of Peterson's Magazine was published in 1842 by Charles J. Peterson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The publication quickly gained a reputation for being the most informative and entertaining resource for women of that time and soon hailed the largest circulation of all monthlies published in the United States. Click here for more information.

[9] A death notice appears in the June 12, 1862 edition of the Owego Gazette for Alvah Archibald. He is reported to have died on Sunday, June 9th, of consumption. The June 26, 1862 edition carried the following obituary:

"Died, in Owego, on Sunday night, June 8th, at 12 o'clock, Alvah B. Archibald, Esq, aged 57 years. The deceased had been a resident of Owego for forty years or more, suffering nearly the whole of that long period with Asthma, which finally terminated in consumption, resulting in his death. He was an intelligent and an honest man, possessing as kind a heart as was ever concealed within a human breast, and always enjoying the fullest confidence and respect of all who knew him -- one year ago last January the people attesting their high regard for him by electing him for the Office of Justice of the Peace, which office he resigned last winter, previous to Town Meeting, on account of his failing health, the vacancy being filled by the election of James P. Lovejoy, Esq. Mr. Archibald manifested the utmost resignation to the will of God during the whole of his protracted and painful illness, never having been heard to murmer or complain, and died in the blessed assurance of a glorious immortality. he leaves an only son, three brothers (Samuel, Almond, and Allen,) one sister, and other relatives, to mourn his death -- his wife, and father and mother, having successively preceded him, within a few years past, in their departure to the spirit land."

[10] A death notice appearing in the June 12, 1862 edition of the Owego Gazette, reports that Lillian E. Cable, the six year-old daughter of F. O. and Sarah Cable, died of Diptheria on Saturday, June 7th. A poem entitled, "Little Lillie" accompanied the notice.

[11] The Battle of Seven Pines was fought on May 31, 1862.

[12] David A. Shepard (1802-1876) joined the Genesee Conference in 1824. He served Owego in 1830-31, and later returned as Presiding Elder on the Owego District in 1862. He served Owego again 1863, and then became Chaplain in the Auburn Prison in 1864, and again in 1873-1876. He wife was Maria R. Robie. Source: History of the Wyoming Conference by A. F. Chaffee, p. 246.

[13] George P. Porter (1820-1877) joined the Oneida Conference in 1848, but became a member of the Wyoming Conference when the Oneida Conference divided. According to Chaffee, he "lapsed into infidelity" while serving the Owego station in 1854-1855 and withdrew completely from the church from 1856 to 1860 while struggling with his "appetite for drink." In 1861, he was again admitted on trial into the Wyoming Conference and returned to the Owego station in 1861-1862. He was made the Presiding Elder of the Owego District in 1863-1866. His wife was Frances Worthing. Source: History of the Wyoming Conference by A. F. Chaffee, p. 230.

[14] Samuel Rockwood married Augusta Goodrich on 3 September 1832 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Augusta Goodrich, born 1811, was Mary Ann Goodrich’s younger sister. She was one of the organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Owego in 1834. She died 17 September 1839. Sometime prior to 1833, Samuel and Augusta (Goodrich) Rockwood came from Glastonbury, Connecticut. He owned and conducted the red mills north of the village. He sold the property to Jonathan Platt sometime previous to 1850 and removed to Belvedere, Illinois where he engaged in farming.

In 1833, Samuel Rockwood was living in Owego and serving in the local militia as lieutenant-colonel of the 53rd regiment. In August of that year, he was promoted to colonel and he commanded the regiment until July 1837. The uniforms worn by the regiment at the time were the same as the regular army, but round hats with feathers and the American cockade were deemed a part of the full uniform for a captain or a subaltern, and blue pantaloons at all seasons of the year were considered a part of the full uniform.

Samuel Rockwood enlisted in the 9th Illinois Cavalry in the fall of 1861. He was initially a private in Company I, but was promoted to Adjutant in the Company Headquarters early in 1862. The Company started from Chicago and traveled by rail to Benton Barracks near St. Louis, and Pilot Knob, Missouri. From there they marched to Reeve’s Station on the Big Black River and were attached to the Third Brigade of General Steele’s Division, serving in the District of Southeast Missouri. Regiment records show Samuel Rockwood resigning on April 10, 1862 after only about six months of service.

[15] Aner Goodrich, born 30 September 1789, was a son of Noah Goodrich, a cousin of Eliakim Goodrich. He married Ruth Stratton on October 1, 1813.