Goode attended Hampden-Sydney College after leaving R-MC, and enlisted on May 28, 1861 as a corporal in Co. G of the 20th VA Infantry, the "Hampden-Sydney Boys." He was captured at the Battle of Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861, and was paroled on July 17, 1861 at Beverly, VA (now WV) with the other students in his company on the condition that they return to school. Goode was officially discharged from service on September 13, 1861. On August 20, 1862, Goode enlisted as a private in Capt. B. H. Smith's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (3rd Company, Richmond Howitzers) and served until the end of the war.
After the war, he moved to Fayette County, TN where he was a teacher and in the 1870 census is listed as a book keeper. He moved to Brownsville, TN where by 1880 he was a salesman in a dry goods store. Goode died on March 25, 1891.
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