author
Harry Endicott Webber
b. 1874
A veteran of the Spanish-American War, this Massachusetts writer turned firsthand experience into local and military history. His surviving books focus on the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry and Salem’s part in the war, giving readers a close-up view of soldiers and community life at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States
by Harry Endicott Webber
About the author
Born in 1874, Harry Endicott Webber is known today for historical works connected to the Spanish-American War. Catalog records and public-domain editions identify him as the author of Greater Salem in the Spanish-American War (1901) and Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States (1908).
Those books suggest a writer deeply interested in preserving the experience of ordinary soldiers and the role of his home region in a major national event. Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry is especially valuable as a detailed regimental history, and it has remained accessible through library catalogs and Project Gutenberg.
Little biographical information was readily confirmed beyond his birth year, so the safest picture is of a Massachusetts author and chronicler whose work helps keep the memory of the Spanish-American War alive for later readers.