Josiah H. Goodwin, born in Hancock County, Ohio, in 1841, first enlisted as a private in the 21st Ohio Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was involved in the Siege of Corinth in 1862 and soon after became a fifer in the Mississippi Marine Brigade, a Union Army unit that was part of the U.S. Ram Fleet that patrolled the Mississippi River. A house painter before and after the Civil War, Josiah Goodwin married Margaret Howard and died in 1918.
William Wiseley, Ph.D., a former U.S. Marine and captain in the Korean War, taught economics and history at Harvard. Wiseley's great aunt, Maude Goodwin, was the daughter of Josiah H. Goodwin.
From the description of Josiah Goodwin diaries and research collection, 1862-1864, 1983-1984. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 180706602
