Edward Branch Goode Sr.

born 8 November, 1839 at Wheatland - died 15 October, 1920

CSA Lt./Adjutant,4th Virginia Infantry Regiment, VMI class of 1862

Son of William Osborne Goode and Sarah Waller Massie Goode

Siblings: William Osborne Goode; Lucy Herbert Waller Goode Baskerville; John Thomas Goode; Henrietta Waller Goode Boyd; Sarah Massie Goode. Wife, Lucy Tarry Watkins Goode

VMI Record: Entered VMI- Sept. 17, 1858; Left ca. July, 1861; Made Honorary Graduate of the Class of 1862 on July 2, 1869.

Military Record: Drill Master for VMI Corps of Cadets in Spring of 1861; Appointed 2nd Lieut. of Infantry and Adjutant at Camp Lee July 16, 1861; Assigned to 56th Va. As Adjutant Oct. 14, 1861; left on sick leave (expected to die from typhoid fever) at Russellville, Ky. Feb. 1862; Recovered and made way on foot to Va.; Appointed 1st Lieut., Adjutant of 34th Va. Oct. 14, 1862; received one day leave on Aug. 25, 1863 to accompany some young ladies to Burkesville; Unofficial source says he was wounded in action in Petersburg trenches and at Hatcher's Run. Paroled at Appomattox in 1865.

Careers: Planter; mill owner; lawyer; member of both houses of the Virginia Legislature.