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John Franklin Goodrich.
Private 21st Iowa Vols. (Infantry), August 28, 1862; died at Vicksburg, Miss., June 4, 1863, of disease contracted in the service.
John Franklin Goodrich was the son of Allen and Mary (Emerson) Goodrich, and was born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, August 13, 1826.
He was fitted for college by Mrs. Ripley of Waltham, Massachusetts.
In college he was not prominent as a scholar, nor very well known among his classmates; but the respect in which he was hing he wrote.
In the charge on the enemy at Black River, May 17th, Goodrich was one of the first to enter their works, and so at the assault on the outer works at Vicksburg, May 22d.
Here he contracted the brain fever, of which, on the 4th of June, 1863, he died.
He was taken into the tent of his Lieutenant, for more tender nursing; and recovering his consciousness for a little while before his death, his last messages were for the welfare of his children, that they might be brought up in