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Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Somerville Directory (search)
Military Sketch no. 2 Edmund H. Gooding.
I was born September 5, 1846, in Boston, and moved to Somerville July, 1850.
After having endeavored for almost two years to convince my parents that I was old enough to be a soldier, and that I ought to go to the war, I finally succeeded in getting their consent, and, accordingly, I enlisted January 13, 1864, in Company in of what was known as the New Battalion of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, then in camp at Readville, Mass.
After a short time, the battalion was sent to Giesboro Point, near Washington, and from there marched to Warrenton, Va., where the regiment lay in winter quarters, reaching Warrenton March 24.
About the first of May winter quarters were broken up, and the regiment, with the rest of the Army of the Potomac, started on what is known as the Wilderness Campaign.
We had a chance at some of the fighting, being engaged in the Wilderness May 5, and at Todd's Tavern May 6.
On May 9 the Cavalry Corps started o
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Table of Contents (search)