This came from RCHS publication no. 12, Winter 1979: Captain Nathaniel Gooch enlisted in April 1861 in Co. C, 18th Tenn Infantry serving as 2nd Lieut. He was captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862 and exchanged in November 1862 in Vicksburg, Miss. after which he became Captain on the staff of General James B. Palmer (note per Estelle- could they mean Gen. Joseph B. Palmer?) After the war Nathaniel became a medical doctor practicing in Rutherford Co., later in 1886 moving to Nashville and continuing his practice there. Nathaniel has many descendants, widely scattered, but two of his grandchildren still live in the area - Lt. Co. Christopher McEwen Gooch, Jr. of Clarksville, and Mrs. Jane Gooch Ambrose (Mrs. Henry Ambrose) of Brentwood Son of Dr. John and Eliza Ann Saunders Gooch. Goochland was the plantation. The property was taken over for Sewart AFB and the house was razed in 1942. There were three other sons enlisted in the Confederate Army but not this unit.