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Charles Bean Amory
1841–1919
A Civil War veteran who turned memory into history, he wrote vivid firsthand accounts of service with the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers and helped preserve the record of his regiment for later readers.
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Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers
by Charles Bean Amory, James Armstrong, Nelson H. DeLane
About the author
Born in New York City on July 30, 1841, and raised in Jamaica Plain in Boston, Charles Bean Amory came from a prominent Massachusetts family. A guide from the Massachusetts Historical Society notes that after finishing high school in 1857, he worked for Boston merchant B. C. Clark & Co., giving him a business background before the Civil War changed the course of his life.
Amory is best remembered for his wartime writing. He served in the Union Army with the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers, and later wrote A Brief Record of the Army Life of Charles B. Amory, a personal account originally prepared for his children. He is also credited through Project Gutenberg and library records with Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, showing his lasting interest in documenting the men he served beside.
He died on October 18, 1919. Though not widely known today, his books remain valuable for readers interested in the Civil War from the viewpoint of someone who lived it and took care to preserve its details.