Daniel Gookin
Daniel Gookin was born around 1822 in Massachusetts to J. W. and Elizabeth Gookin. He married Betsey H. Dole, and they had at least three children: Charles, born around 1853; Hellen, born around 1855; and Arabella, born around 1857. They lived in Portland, Maine, and Gookin worked as a carriage maker. By 1860, he owned $200 of personal property. He enlisted in the Union army on August 18, 1862, and mustered in as a corporal in Company B of the 17th Maine Infantry later that day. He eventually earned a promotion to sergeant. His regiment took part in the Battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. He was wounded at Petersburg on June 16, 1864, and he mustered out on December 15, 1864. Gookin returned to Portland, Maine, after the war, and by 1870, he owned $1,000 of personal property. He died in Maine in 1885.
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(431)Gookin, Daniel18221885
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Corporal
  • Rank out: Sergeant
  • Rank highest: Sergeant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 3

  • (629) [writer] ~ Daniel Gookin Diary, July 1863
  • (630) [writer] ~ Daniel Gookin to Betsey Gookin, 4 April 1865
  • (631) [writer] ~ Daniel Gookin to Betsey Gookin, 31 May 1864

People - Records: 1

  • (431) Gookin, Daniel is the [husband of] (432) Gookin, Betsey

Places - Records: 2

  • (495) [birth] ~ Massachusetts
  • (387) [death] ~ Maine

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (46) [enlisted] [B] ~ 17th Maine Infantry
SOURCES

1860 and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.