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A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow
1841–1913
Best remembered for a firsthand Civil War history, this New York veteran turned his company’s wartime experience into a vivid regimental record. His writing preserves the daily life, hardships, and memory of ordinary Union soldiers.
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About the author
Born in 1841 and deceased in 1913, A. R. Barlow is identified in library and public-domain records as Albert Rowe Barlow. He is known for Company G: a record of the services of one company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion, a detailed account of one Union company’s service from 1862 to 1865.
Barlow’s book stands out because it was written from close knowledge of the men and events it describes. Rather than offering a distant overview of the Civil War, it focuses on the lived experience of a single company, helping modern readers see the conflict through the routines, movements, and losses of soldiers in the field.
Although little biographical information was easy to confirm beyond his dates and authorship, his work has endured through archives and Project Gutenberg, where it remains available to readers interested in Civil War history and firsthand regimental narratives.