Loren Goodrich correspondence, 1862-1863.

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Goodrich, Loren. Loren Goodrich correspondence, 1862-1863.

Loren Goodrich correspondence, 1862-1863.

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Newspapers clippings and letters to friends, some of which are addressed to Joseph Wells of Wethersfield. Letters were written from Virginia, 1862-1863; Maryland, 1862-1863; and from Armory Square Hospital in Washington, DC, 1865. Goodrich, who lived in New Britain, Connecticut, was part of the Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry, Company E. He enlisted 2 August 1862 and was mustered-in on 23 August 1862. He received a disability discharge on 28 November 1863. The letters are rich in detail. A part of Goodrich̕s letter of 17 July 1863 was published in Charles Hamblen̕s Connecticut Yankees at Gettysburg (Kent State University Press, 1993), p.113.

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