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1874–1944
A minister, soldier, teacher, and historian, he wrote with the firsthand perspective of someone who had served the regiment he chronicled. His best-known books preserve the story of Massachusetts coast artillery service from its early years through World War I.
by Frederick Morse Cutler
Frederick Morse Cutler was an American author and chaplain best known for military histories connected with the Massachusetts Coast Artillery. Library and public-domain catalog records identify him as the author of The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace (1917) and The 55th Artillery (C.A.C.) in the American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918 (1920), and list his lifespan as 1874–1944.
The surviving records also show that he served as a first lieutenant and chaplain, which helps explain the close, informed tone of his writing about military life and regimental tradition. In addition to those longer histories, a 1933 issue of Bird-Banding credits him with the article “A Chickadee Recovery,” suggesting interests that reached beyond military history.
A later university yearbook entry appears to identify a Frederick Morse Cutler, born in 1874, as a scholar with degrees from Columbia University and Clark University who had worked as a teacher, clergyman, author, social worker, and soldier. Because that source is brief and not a full biography, it is safest to say that the published record presents him as a notably varied figure whose writing grew out of both scholarship and service.