General Notes

b. 1839/40 by census records
divorced 1883
m.1885 Margaret Harrison

1870 census-  Lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts  ward 5 at 579 St?

1870 Cambridge, MA census:
John A Goodwin      31
Adeline Goodwin     31
William T C Goodwin 8
Edward W Goodwin 4
Alfred H Goodwin     2
William Goodwin     70
James Cains     24

1880 census-living in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts with Father, William

1900 Akron, Ohio census:
John A Goodwin      60
Margaret H Goodwin 49
Rowena B Goodwin 13

1910 Brookland, Henrico, Virginia census:
John Goodvin      71
Margaret Goodvin     55
Stanley Goodvin     5
Everett Tassie     26


Goodwin fought in the Civil War on the side of The Union. He enlisted in 1st. Company B, 1st. Cav. Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry September 9, 1861 as a private at age 22 and acted as a clerk at head qtrs in Boston, Massachusetts..

Promoted to Full Sergeant Major on 28 December 1862
Promoted to 2nd Lt. April 10, 1863
Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on 13 May 1863, Co, E, 1st Mass Cav.
POW on 09 May 1864 at Beaver Dam Station, VA (Paroled)
Wounded on 09 May 1864 at Beaver Dam Station, VA
Was sent to Alexandria and Camp Stoneman as a POW.
Paroled on 01 March 1865
Mustered out Company B, 1st Cavalry Regiment Massachusetts on 15 May 1865 in Boston, MA


Name:      John A. Goodwin
Side:     Union
Regiment State/Origin:     Massachusetts
Regiment Name:     1 Massachusetts Cavalry
Regiment Name Expanded:     1st Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry
Company:     F&S
Rank In:     Private
Rank In Expanded:     Private
Rank Out:     First Lieutenant
Rank Out Expanded: First Lieutenant
Film Number:     M544 roll 16

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Name:      John A. Goodwin
Side:     Union
Regiment State/Origin:     Massachusetts
Regiment Name:     2 Massachusetts Cavalry
Regiment Name Expanded:     2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry
Company:     L
Rank In:     Private
Rank In Expanded:     Private
Rank Out:     Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number:     M544 roll 16

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Name:      John Goodwin
Residence:     Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation:     Clerk
Enlistment Date:     9 Sep 1861
Side Served:     Union
State Served:     Massachusetts
Service Record:     Promoted to Full Sergeant.
Enlisted as a Private on 9 September 1861 at the age of 22.
Enlisted in Company B, 1st Cavalry Regiment Massachusetts on 12 Sep 1861.
Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 14 Dec 1862.
Promoted to Full Sergeant Major on 29 Dec 1862.
Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 13 May 1863.
Mustered Out Company B, 1st Cavalry Regiment Massachusetts on 15 May 1865 at Boston, MA.
Sources:     3

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This
regiment was largely composed of volunteers from existing
militia organizations and embraced men from the Boston
Lancers, Waltham Dragoons, North Bridgewater Dragoons, and Springfield Horseguards. It was rendezvoused at Camp Brigham, Readville, Massachusetts, where the men began to arrive early in Sept., 1861. By Nov. 1, its ranks were filled and it was mustered into service for three years. Col. Williams was a regular army officer and was recommended to the governor by Gen. Winfield Scott. The 1st battalion, composed of Cos. A, B, C and D, under Maj. Greely S. Curtis, left the state for Annapolis, Md. on Dec. 25. The 2nd and 3rd battalions left on Dec. 26, and 28, proceeding to Hilton Head N.C, after a halt of 1O days en route in New York. They were joined here in Feb., 1862, by the 1st battalion. The first active service of the regiment was on the Charleston expedition in May. On Aug. 19, the 1st and 2nd battalions joined the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, the 3rd being left behind and never rejoined the regiment. Under command of Maj. Stevens it was engaged for several months in the performance of picket and patrol duty at Beaufort and Hilton Head, a detachment sharing in the reconnaissance to Pocotaligo Oct. 22, 1862. During the siege of Fort Sumter in April, 1863, part of the battalion was on duty on Folly and Morris islands. On Aug 4, 1863, it was permanently detached from the regiment and was called the independent battalion, Mass. cavalry, under which name it engaged in the expedition to St. John's river, Fla. It continued to serve as an independent battalion until Feb. 12, 1864, when it became the 1st battalion, 4th Mass. cavalry, and its subsequent history will be given with that regiment. The 1st and 2nd battalions, with the Army of the Potomac, took part in the marches and skirmishes which preceded the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, but was not actively  engaged in either battle. Meanwhile, Col. Williams had returned to service in the regular army, and 238 recruits had been received from Massachusetts. After the battle of
Fredericksburg, it went into winter quarters on Potomac creek. It shared in the action at Kelly's ford in March, 1863, and was attached to the cavalry under Gen. Stoneman during the Chancellorsville campaign. It was engaged at Rapidan Station, and Warrenton road, and Brandy Station, and served as rear-guard at the opening of the Gettysburg campaign. It was heavily engaged at Aldie Court House, losing 24 killed, 41 wounded and 89 missing, accompanied the 6th corps on its march to Gettysburg, and after the battle returned to Westminster with a body of Confederate prisoners. During the remainder of the year it was almost incessantly on the move, scouting, skirmishing, and engaging in the exacting and arduous duties demanded of this arm of the service. In September it met with some loss at Rapidan Station, where it was exposed to a severe artillery fire, and as a part of Gregg's division, it was active in the Mine Run campaign, engaging the enemy's cavalry at New Hope Church and at Parker's store. It covered the withdrawal of the infantry on the abandonment of this  campaign and was on outpost duty at Warrenton until April 21, 1864. In March, 1864, a new battalion of four companies joined the regiment to take the place of the 3rd battalion, which had been detached. The regiment was once more active throughout the trying campaign of 1864 as part of the cavalry corps under Gen. Sheridan being attached to the 1st brigade, 2nd division. A list of its engagements during the year includes: Todd's Tavern, Ashland Salem Church, Trevilian Station, St. Mary's Church, New Market, Lee's mills, Malvern hill, Deep Bottom, Reams' station, Jerusalem road, Vaughan road, and Bellefield Station. The term of enlistment of the original members expired in Sept., 1861, and on Oct. 25, all who had not reenlisted left for home to be mustered out. The veterans and recruits, including the new battalion, were reorganized and continued to serve with its old brigade and division. It spent the winter of 1864-65 in winter quarters at Westbrook house, being detached March 17, 1865, for provost duty at City Point. On May 27, it reported for escort duty to Gen. Davies in command of the cavalry corps in the defenses of Washington, where it remained until mustered out on June 26, 1865. It reached Readville June 29, where the men were finally paid and discharged on July 24. The total enrollment of the regiment was 107 officers and 2,132 enlisted men. Its losses during service were 7 officers and 92 enlisted men, killed or died of
wounds, 2 missing; 88 died by accident or disease; 57 died as prisoners.

Battles Fought
Fought on 15 Jun 1862 at John's Island, SC.
Fought on 16 Jun 1862 at James Island, SC.
Fought on 4 Sep 1862 at Monocacy, MD.
Fought on 5 Sep 1862 at Poolesville, MD.
Fought on 29 Sep 1862 at Duffield's Station, VA.
Fought on 3 Nov 1862 at Snicker's Gap, VA.
Fought on 9 Jan 1863 at Falmouth, VA.
Fought on 17 Mar 1863 at Kelly's Ford, VA.
Fought on 1 May 1863 at Rapidan Station, VA.
Fought on 1 May 1863 at Barnett's Ford, VA.
Fought on 15 May 1863.
Fought on 3 Jun 1863 at White Sulphur Springs, VA.
Fought on 9 Jun 1863 at Stevensburg, VA.
Fought on 9 Jun 1863 at Brandy Station, VA.
Fought on 10 Jun 1863 at Jones' Cross Roads, MD.
Fought on 15 Jun 1863.
Fought on 17 Jun 1863 at Aldie, VA.
Fought on 2 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
Fought on 10 Jul 1863 at Jones' Cross Roads, MD.
Fought on 16 Jul 1863 at Beaufort, SC.
Fought on 24 Jul 1863 at Woodman Shoals, MD.
Fought on 16 Aug 1863 at Orleans, VA.
Fought on 16 Aug 1863 at Near Waterloo, VA.
Fought on 26 Aug 1863 at On Picket near Orleans, VA.
Fought on 13 Sep 1863 at Culpeper, VA.
Fought on 14 Sep 1863 at Rapidan Station, VA.
Fought on 14 Sep 1863 at Culpeper, VA.
Fought on 16 Sep 1863 at Near Rapidan Station, VA.
Fought on 2 Oct 1863 at Beaufort, NC.
Fought on 12 Oct 1863 at White Sulphur Springs, VA.
Fought on 14 Oct 1863 at Auburn, VA.
Fought on 18 Oct 1863.
Fought on 27 Nov 1863 at New Hope Church, VA.
Fought on 29 Nov 1863 at Parker's Store, VA.
Fought on 28 Dec 1863 at On picket.
Fought on 10 Feb 1864 at Barber's Place, FL.
Fought on 11 Feb 1864 at Lake City, FL.
Fought on 21 Mar 1864 at Bayou Rapids, LA.
Fought on 15 Apr 1864.
Fought on 4 May 1864.
Fought on 5 May 1864 at Todd's Tavern, VA.
Fought on 6 May 1864 at Todd's Tavern, VA.
Fought on 9 May 1864 at Beaver Dam, VA.
Fought on 9 May 1864 at Beaver Dam Station, VA. where he was captured as a POW.

Was also stationed at Dunfries
Cav. Depot in Washington, DC
Readville
Potomac Creek

THE GOODWIN FAMILY

The Goodwin family comes from old "Yankee Stock" on both sides of the family. There were three brothers who came over from England origina1ly. They settled in New England, one went to Massachusetts, one to Maine, and the other to Connecticut. We came from the one who settled in Massachusetts. I don't know just now early they came over or what their trades were, nor do I know just exactly where they settled or even their Christian names but it was well over a hundred and fifty years ago and must have been some where in the seventeenth century.

The earliest Goodwin I do Know about is John Augustus Goodwin my paternal grandfather and your great, great grandfather. He was the dashing Civil War Captain  mentioned in Yankee Doodle". (Proved to be incorrect as this song was written much earlier-Norma Brandsberg) You remember how it goes. "Father and I went own to camp along with Captain Goodwin: there we saw the men and boys as thick as hasty pudding." The officers were allowed to have their wives with them and your great grandfather, my father, was born in camp at the old Thatcher homestead in Dedham. That is where his middle name came from. He was christened William Thatcher Chamberlain Goodwin. The Chamberlain came from General Chamberlain his father's Superior officer.

JOHN AUGUSTUS GOODWIN married Adeline Bacon White a Boston blue blood and direct descendent of Peregrine White the baby which was born on the Mayflower. They lived on historic Beacon Hill and were very wealthy. Her mother died when she was born and her father held her responsible for it and told them to take her away that he never wanted to lay eyes on her again. Matters were made worse as he had wanted a boy, so she was brought up by governesses and servants and hardly knew her father. He married again some time later and she and her step mother never got alone either. She was twelve years old when her father died. He called for her when he was dying told her that he was leaving all he had to "Aunty White" which  was what she called her stepmother, and that she would look after her.

She fell in love with the dashing Civil War Captain and married him much against Aunty White’s wishes as Captain Goodwin was considered beneath her. When Aunty White died she left the family fortune to charities. Your great, great grandmother was a very religious woman and she wouldn't go to court and swear that her father had told her on his death bed that he was leaving everything to Aunty White and that she would take care of her when he died. As she was only twelve at the time and said she couldn’t be sure that was what he meant, so the family fortune went out of our hands. She had a small fortune left her by her mother so it didn't seem to matter very much at the time, either. Her husband went through that however, as she put him up in business twice once In the drug business and once in the dry goods business, his army career had developed recklessness in him and a desire to gamble and drink so she left him with her three boys of which my father was one, and lived very modestly the rest of her life In Salem Massachusetts, where the family has been living after the war was over. She had managed to save enough of her money to tide her over, so she was able to live independently though frugally for the rest of her life.

The family fortune had originally been in dry goods. R.H. Whites' department store in Boston was founded by her grandfather and was inherited by her father which was probably why he wanted a boy so badly when she was born. I never went into that enormous store without going up into the balcony and looking down on the bustling crowds and thinking that it all could have belonged to us except for a trick of fate.

William Thatcher Chamberlain Goodwin married Alice Gertrude Rice. That is where the coat of arms you saw of comes into the picture, An English Lord by the name of Catlin came over to this country and met and fell in love with a beautiful Maine girl. He married her much against his father's wishes and was disinherited. When he came to this country for in the first place or just when, I do not know, nor do I know how they came to be living in Fitchburg, Mass., where your great grandmother was born. All I know is that the brother to whom the inheritance was to go after the father had disinherited his eldest son, died before the father did and he repented on his death bed and reinstated his eldest so that he inherited the estate and title. He never went back to England to claim it, however, end the story used to be passed around that we had a big fortune in England waiting for someone to come over and claim it. Nobody ever had the money to look into it, however, so I don't know what ever happened to it. I expect it was probably absorbed by the crown after so many years had passed and is nonexistent now, As for the coat of arms, I have seen them but it was many years and I am not sure how they look. My mother’s brother had them and he is gone now. I don't even know if Aunt Ethel is alive now or not. They had twins, however, a boy and a girl and I know they are both married and have families but T don't know where they live. The family has spread so far and I have been out of touch with them for so long, over twenty years. I doubt if any of my brothers or sisters could tell you any more. I was the last one to leave home and was more in touch with the cousins and aunts and uncles than most of the others. I do know that it was a shield and had a red background and blue and gold and black designs with some thing crossed underneath the shield. We had a silver butter dish that came down from that side of the family that I remember maybe your father remembers it too as he lived with us when he was little and visited a lot. It was round and stood on legs. It had knobs at each side with which you turned the top gown inside the bottom and had a stags head on the front the antlers of which came out and branched up and the butter knife rested on them. It had the coat of arms and mother used to always say that King George had eaten at the table when the butter dish was used. I don't know which King George she meant and I have often wondered what happened to the butter dish. We had lots of family heirlooms that I remember when I was little that would be valuable antiques now. I think my father must nave pawned them or sold them to dealers as he was always hard up. It cost a lot to raise a family the size of ours. He always earned good pay but the demands were great. I remember when I was twelve years old he earned $35.00 a week when my playmates fathers were only getting eighteen and they said I was telling lies. I always get a kick out or watching "Mama" on television because that is the way we used to live and dress when I was Dagmar's age.

My mother was born in Fitchburg Mass. as I said above but I don't know where her mother and father were born or where in Maine the girl who married the English Lord's son lived. You could write to your greet Aunt where Nana Goodwin lives but I doubt if Nana will remember. She is failing fast and can't remember my name when I go to see her. I have to tell her who I am. I know that she lived in Waltham as a girl and her father died when she was in high school and she had to leave school and go to work In Waltham Watch Factory. My father was  a captain in the U. S. Marines when she met him and was somewhat like his father the civil war captain, he was an expert marksman and I remember a large gilt picture frame with blue velvet and filled with row upon rows of meta1s he had won. Mother used to
cut up his old uniforms down for the boys when they were little. Out immediate family has always lived in Massachusetts mostly around Boston and all but Charles and Walter married Massachusetts folks. Charles married a N.H girl and Walter a Maine girl.


Date of Bacon Family from "Bacon Genealogy, 1915
Published by Murray-Emery Co.,
Kendall Square, Cambridge

Samuel Bacon enlisted in Col. Baldwin's Regiment,
Capt. Moore's Company, Apr, 19, 1775.

Grunbald, a relative of the Norman chief ton, William de Warenne came to Eng1and at the time of the Conquest (1065) and settled near Holt.    His great grandson is said to have taken the name Bacon. The decendants are:
Grunbald
Ranulf
Roger
Rogert
John
John (Time of Edward 1st.)
John
John
John
Edmund
John
Thomas of Heliningham
John
Michael
Michael emigrated to Dedham,

(There was a tree of the Bacons attached which has several of the lineage generations missing and which I already had in the family tree. It matches what I have except for the couple of generations missing, The above document  was written by Alfreda Goodwin and scanned by an OCR program and corrected. This information has notbeen confirmed. We are looking for anyone who has more information about the connections to the White family.-Norma Brandsberg)