"Died, Non-Battle"

The words jumped off the screen and hit me between the eyes. "Died, non-battle." There was no other explanation. Only Private Goodman's rank and service number, arranged in a list with the other war dead from Robeson County (including my grandmother's oldest brother, Henry Howard Cheshire.) So now, there is a new mystery about the elusive Private Goodman.

You can find this Honor List and others here.

I mailed off the request for Private Goodman's records to a government agency in St. Louis. Not sure what to expect, even when to expect them. But I'm hopeful there will be some clues inside.