Charles P. (Charles Palfray) Bosson

Charles P. Bosson, also listed as Charles Palfray Bosson, is credited with at least two notable nonfiction works that survive in major digital libraries. One is History of the Forty-second Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862, 1863, 1864, published in 1886 and attributed to Sergeant-Major Charles P. Bosson, a detail that suggests he wrote from direct personal experience of military service.

An earlier work, Observations on the Potatoe, and a Remedy for the Potatoe Plague, was published in Boston in 1846. Together, these books show an author drawn to practical subjects: one rooted in agriculture and public concern during the potato blight, the other in preserving the memory of a Massachusetts regiment and its wartime service.

Reliable biographical details about Bosson himself are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so much of his life remains indistinct. Even so, his surviving books make him an interesting figure: a writer whose work connects everyday 19th-century anxieties, from crop failure to war, with the voice of someone intent on recording what he saw and understood.