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Charles Bean Amory
1841–1919
A Civil War veteran from a prominent Boston family, he turned his wartime experience into firsthand historical writing. His surviving work offers a direct, personal view of the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers and the people who served in it.
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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, Massachusetts, Charles Bean Amory came from the long-established Amory family of Boston. After finishing high school in 1857, he worked in business before the Civil War changed the course of his life.
Amory served in the Union Army with the 24th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War, rising from lieutenant to major. Later in life he wrote about that experience in A Brief Record of the Army Life of Charles B. Amory and was also associated with Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, preserving details of the regiment and the men who served in it.
He died on October 18, 1919, in Milton, Massachusetts. Today he is remembered less as a literary figure than as a soldier-memoirist whose writing helps keep the everyday record of Civil War service alive.