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ABSTRACT:
James "Henry" Gooding, originally from Troy, New York, was a whaling ship crewman living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and became a non-commissioned officer in "C" Company. He was also a war correspondent for the New Bedford Mercury. Each week, they would publish his letter from the front lines in the prominent top-center position of the inside page. (Front pages were reserved for advertisements back then.) The letters reveal a poet and scholar of wide-ranging education in literature, history, and the classics. He was a hugely talented writer who, as much as he hated killing, forced himself to become a solider. You can still read his letters today in James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom, edited by Virginia Matzke Adams (Amherst: U. of Mass, 1991).
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