CCLHP: Deposition of Henry H. Goodman

Henry H. Goodman a resident of Coles County in Hutton Township, twenty nine years of age, came before me and says on oath that, I was in Charleston on the 28th day of March 1864 and says, I seen Bluford Brooks leave the Court House just about the time the fray commenced and go out at the South gait of the Court House yard, and went on to the corner of the street by Morton's store, and immediately after the firing ceased saw Bluford Brooks get on his horse which was an iron grey and started home peaceably, and furthermore says I was with him before the fray and with him before the firing ceased and saw no arms about him of any description nor saw him use no arms in the time of the fray and says positively that he knew that Bluford Brooks had no arms about him on that day, and furthermore says in the positive that I rode out of town with him and that Brooks was peaceable and rallied no men nor tried to, and says I have known Bluford Brooks for twenty years, both living in Coles County and have always known him to be a quiet and peaceable man.

(Signed) Henry H. Goodman

Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 13th day of June 1864
Ira Wiley, J.P.

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