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Submitted: 1/23/20 • Approved: 1/25/20 • Last Updated: 5/7/22 • R258453-G0-S3
Andrew Jackson Goodson
PRIVATE CSA
Company C 30th Regiment
Georgia Infantry.
Civil War Confederate
PRIVATE Union
Company F 6th US Volunteer
Infantry Regiment
Civil War Union
February 14, 1837 - January 4, 1915
Prisoner of War
Note:
Andrew Jackson Goodson was born in Villa Rica, Carroll County, Georgia on February 14, 1837. His parents were George Washington Goodson and Rebecca Dellinger, both born and later married in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
He enlisted as a Private in the Confederate Army on September 25, 1861 in Campbell County, Georgia. He served in Company C, 30th Regiment, Georgia Infantry. While on furlough he married his wife, Nancy Mary Alexander, on February 10, 1864 in Campbell County, Georgia. He left her pregnant with their first child, John Andrew Goodson, who was born on December 4, 1864 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
He returned to duty and was captured near Marietta, Georgia on July 5, 1864 by the Union Army on their march through Georgia near Marietta at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. He was taken to Nashville, and then to Camp Douglas POW camp (Union Army prison) in Chicago, Illinois, arriving on July 16, 1864.
He was held there for about eight months, and was offered the chance to get out of prison, if he enlisted in the Union Army. The agreement was that he would not have to fight against his Confederate brethren in the south, but instead be was sent out west to the frontier to fight in the Indian wars. These men were called "Galvanized Yankees". He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Union Army at Camp Douglas on March 24, 1865 and was sent to Fort Kearney, Nebraska.
There he was released from his obligations and honorably discharged on October 10, 1866. He returned to Georgia, where he was ostracized, and after a couple years he and his wife and child left there and migrated to northeastern Texas.
Following the war, nine other children were produced by this marriage, until Nancy's death on September 10, 1889, at Atlanta, Cass County, Texas. The family also lived in Sevier County Arkansas for a number of years, as well as the Indian Territory, before finally returning to Cass County.
Andrew Jackson Goodson died in Atlanta, Cass County, Texas on January 4, 1915.
Contributed on 1/23/20 by gr2rumble
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