GOODWIN CIVIL WAR DIARY

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Diary Entries

• Teaching school at Pond Run, Ohio 1/1/61
• President Lincoln's Inaugural 3/1/61
• Teaching in New Jersey & Enlistment 4/1/61
• Arrival at Fort Monroe, Virginia 5/28/61
• Balloon ascension to spy on enemy 8/1/61
• Duty in Virginia 9/1/61
• Battle of Monitor and Merrimac 3/8/62
• General McClellan's Army arrives 3/19/62
• Occupy Norfolk, Virginia 5/1/62
• Expedition to the Dismal Swamp 11/1/62
• More duty in Virginia 1/1/63
• Battle of Suffolk 4/10/63
• Expeditions deep into Virginia 6/1/63
• To Yorktown & widespread sickness 8/1/63
• To New Bern, North Carolina 10/23/63
• Hope for the New Year 1/1/64
• Expedition to blow up an Ironclad 5/24/64
• Mustered out & Home to Maine 6/14/64
• Return to New Jersey 8/1/64

An Illinois Soldier in the Civil War