author
Daniel Oakey
A Civil War veteran who wrote from direct experience, he left behind a vivid account of the Second Massachusetts Regiment at Beverly Ford. His short work captures movement, morale, and the feel of soldiers' lives in the field.
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About the author
Daniel Oakey is known for History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: Beverly Ford, a paper read at an officers' reunion in Boston in 1884 and later preserved by libraries and Project Gutenberg. The work centers on the regiment's experience at Beverly Ford during the Civil War and stands out for its close, firsthand perspective.
The title page identifies him as a captain in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, which helps explain the book's direct, practical voice. Rather than offering a distant overview, Oakey writes from inside the events, describing camp life, movement, and combat with the detail of someone who was there.
Little biographical information about Oakey was readily confirmed in the sources consulted, so his surviving reputation rests mainly on this concise regimental history. For readers interested in personal military narratives, his work offers a compact and memorable window into one moment of the American Civil War.