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Albert M. Goodrich
A Minnesota printer, editor, and local historian, he wrote detailed works that preserve both Civil War naval history and the story of early communities in the Upper Midwest. His books have the steady, documentary feel of someone deeply interested in how events were recorded and remembered.
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Cruise and Captures of the Alabama
by Albert M. Goodrich
About the author
Albert M. Goodrich was an American writer, editor, and printer associated with Minneapolis, where contemporary records describe him as a veteran in the printing trade. He is known for Cruise and Captures of the Alabama, a historical account of the Confederate raider CSS Alabama, and for History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County, Minnesota, a substantial local history first published in 1905.
His work suggests a practical historian's mindset: careful with records, attentive to names and events, and interested in preserving stories that might otherwise fade. That combination made him useful both as a chronicler of wartime episodes and as a keeper of regional memory.
Available sources indicate that he was born in 1860 and died in 1935. While many personal details are hard to confirm from easily accessible records, his surviving books still offer a clear sense of his strengths as a researcher and compiler of history.