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Alonzo A. White
Best remembered as one of the contributors to a detailed Civil War regimental history, this little-known writer helped preserve the experiences of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers for later generations.
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History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865
by Henry S. (Henry Sweetser) Burrage, William H. (William Henry) Hodgkins, Edmund W. Noyes, S. Alonzo Ranlett, Alonzo A. White
About the author
Alonzo A. White is a relatively obscure historical author whose documented published work is tied to History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865. That book was published in the late nineteenth century and credits him alongside Henry S. Burrage, S. Alonzo Ranlett, William H. Hodgkins, and Edmund W. Noyes.
The volume grew out of efforts by veterans and officers of the regiment to record their wartime service, battles, and memories after the American Civil War. White’s role in that collaboration suggests he was closely connected to the regiment and took part in preserving its story in a form meant for comrades, families, and future readers.
Very little reliable biographical detail about his wider life was readily confirmed from the sources available here, which makes him one of those authors known more through a single enduring contribution than through a well-documented public profile.