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Edmund W. Noyes
Best remembered today as one of the contributors to a detailed Civil War regimental history, this little-documented writer is associated with preserving the story of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. The surviving record is sparse, which gives his work an added sense of historical curiosity.
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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
Edmund W. Noyes is a hard-to-trace historical author whose name survives most clearly through History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862–1865, a collaborative regimental history also credited to Henry S. Burrage, Alonzo A. White, S. Alonzo Ranlett, and William H. Hodgkins.
Project Gutenberg lists that regimental history under his name, confirming his connection to the book. Beyond that, readily available biographical details are limited, so it is safest to describe him as a contributor to a veteran-centered historical record rather than to claim a fuller literary career.
For listeners interested in firsthand-era military remembrance, his appeal lies in that connection: a writer helping preserve the memory of a Massachusetts regiment and its wartime experience in a form that has continued to circulate long after its original publication.