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Henry S. (Henry Sweetser) Burrage
1837–1926
A Civil War veteran who became a Baptist minister, editor, and historian, he wrote with the care of a researcher and the energy of someone who had lived through dramatic times. His books on Maine, Baptist history, and hymn writers helped preserve a wide stretch of American religious and regional history.
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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
Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1837, he graduated from Brown University and began theological study before leaving to serve in the 36th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He rose from private to brevet major and was wounded at Cold Harbor, an experience that became part of the larger story of a life marked by duty, scholarship, and public service.
After the war, he built a long career as a Baptist clergyman, editor, and author. He served churches in New England, edited Zion's Advocate for many years, and became especially known for careful historical writing. Among his best-known works are History of the Baptists in Maine and Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns, along with other books on religion, Maine history, and Civil War memory.
He died in 1926, leaving behind the work of a writer who combined pastoral interests with a historian's instinct to gather facts, names, and stories before they disappeared. Readers interested in American religion, New England, or nineteenth-century history will find in his books a strong sense of record-keeping and remembrance.