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Nelson H. DeLane

Best remembered for helping preserve the story of a Civil War company, this Massachusetts veteran was one of the committee members behind a detailed roster of the 24th Regiment. His work gives readers a direct link to the people who served, not just the battles they fought.

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Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers

Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers

by Charles Bean Amory, James Armstrong, Nelson H. DeLane

About the author

Nelson H. DeLane was a Civil War veteran and one of the compilers of Roster of Company I, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, published in 1902 with Charles B. Amory and James Armstrong. The book was prepared on behalf of the survivors' association of Company I and stands as a careful record of the men who served in that unit.

Available records identify him as Nelson H. Delane, born on July 6, 1838, in Malone, New York, and deceased on December 26, 1926, in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Those details fit the same veteran connected with the 24th Massachusetts roster, though modern reprints most often use the spelling "DeLane."

His lasting importance is tied less to a large body of published work than to this act of remembrance. By helping document the officers and soldiers of Company I, he contributed to the kind of firsthand historical record that keeps individual service and sacrifice from being lost.