three years before. He was on duty when the powder was removed from Fort Norfolk April 19, 1861. Not long afterward the company turned over its four brass howitzers to the Huger battery, and served with the Sixteenth regiment, also in artillery service, mainly at Sewell's point, until the abandonment of Norfolk. During this time Private Goodrich witnessed the naval duel between the Virginia and Monitor. On reaching Petersburg the company was furnished six guns, and assigned to the defenses of Richmond. In the fall of 1862 Mr. Goodrich was with the company at Brandy Station ford on the Rappahannock, and later he took part in the battle of Fredericksburg. In 1863 he fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, attached to Colonel Garnett's battalion of artillery, and in 1864 he was at the front and in the heat of the fight, in the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover Junction and Cold Harbor. During the siege of Petersburg he served on the lines to the right of the scene of the Crater mine explosion and battle. At Hatcher's Run, April 2, 1865, he was captured by the enemy, and being sent to Point Lookout, was held there as a prisoner of war until June 14, 1865. Then returning to Norfolk he resumed the mercantile pursuits he had entered upon before the war, and after several years' service as a clerk, opened a grocery establishment in 1873, which he conducted with much success for about twenty years, then retiring from trade. He was a director of the City gas company, and is now a member of the street sewerage and drainage board.
John T. Goolrick, a prominent attorney of Fredericksburg, Va., was born at that city, September 10, 1845. His father, Hon. Peter Goolrick, a native of Sligo, Ireland, and son of Bartholomew Goolrick, was born in 1801, served as a midshipman in the British navy until compelled by ill health to resign, came to America in 1820 and made his home at Fredericksburg, where he was prosperous as a merchant, served seven years as mayor, and died in 1868. His wife was Jane V., daughter of Charles Tackett, a distinguished Virginia educator of the former period. When John T. Goolrick had reached the age of nineteen years he enlisted in the Fredericksburg artillery, while the fighting was in progress at Spottsylvania Court House, and participated in the remainder of the campaign from the Wilderness to Richmond, including the battle of Cold Harbor, and then served on the lines in defense of the Confederate capital, taking part in the battle of the Crater, and the battle of Fort Harrison on October 10, 1864. In the latter fight he was wounded in the left leg, and, in consequence, was disabled until the latter part of March, 1865. After the close of hostilities he completed his legal studies at the Valley law school under Judge Richard Parker, brother of the late Capt. W. H. Parker, and began the practice as a lawyer at Fredericksburg in 1870. In 1871 he was elected judge of the city court and judge of the county court, and in this dual judicial capacity he served for a period of twelve years In 1883 he resumed the practice as an attorney and has continued the same since then, except during two years, 1886-88, when he held the office of chief of divisions of the postoffice department at Washington, D. C, under appointment of President Cleveland. He has also held for four years the office of commonwealth attorney for the city of Fredericksburg. He was the first commander and is an active member of Maury
