A vivid firsthand record from the Union ranks of major battles and figures of the Civil War, and of the Reconstruction efforts that followed, published December 2008, by the University of South Carolina Press
Goddard as a Young Journalist
Captain Goddard
Goddard in Later Years
The letters, journals, and newspaper writings of Henry Perkins Goddard (1842–1916) of Norwich, Connecticut, provide much firsthand detail about the passions and principles of a divided nation during the Civil War and Reconstruction as witnessed by a scrupulous soldier and scribe eager to capture the bitter realities of his time. Edited by his great-grandson, The Good Fight That Didn't End includes Goddard's accounts of combat in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, his travels across the war-torn South after the war, and his encounters and friendships with well-known historical and literary figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Armstrong Custer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain.
