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Jewett Palmer
b. 1840
A Civil War veteran, local official, and memorialist of Ohio service, he left behind a firsthand account of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His writing preserves the voice of someone who lived the events he later set down on the page.
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About the author
Born in 1840 and later active in Marietta, Ohio, he is best remembered today for A Historical Sketch of Company "B," Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Three Months Service. Project Gutenberg lists that work under his name, and archival records describe him as a Civil War officer, local Republican official, and mayor of Marietta.
His book stands out because it comes from personal experience. Rather than writing as a distant historian, he wrote as a participant looking back on wartime service, helping preserve the everyday memory of soldiers from his regiment.
Available sources focus much more on his military and civic life than on his literary career, so only a few biographical details can be confirmed with confidence. Even so, his surviving work gives readers a direct link to Ohio's Civil War past and to the kind of local historical writing that keeps community memory alive.