author
Richard J. Fulfer
A Civil War veteran turned chronicler of his regiment’s experience, he preserved the everyday hardships, marches, and battles of the Twenty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in a firsthand history published in 1913.
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About the author
Richard J. Fulfer is known for A History of the Trials and Hardships of the Twenty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, published in Indianapolis in 1913. Library and public-domain records consistently identify him as the author of that regimental history, a work focused on the Union regiment’s service in the American Civil War.
The book stands out for its close attention to soldier life as well as military events, suggesting a writer deeply familiar with the regiment and its story. Because reliable biographical information about Fulfer himself is limited in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to describe him mainly through this surviving work: a careful memorial to the experiences of Indiana volunteers.
For listeners interested in Civil War history, Fulfer’s writing offers a grounded, personal window into how one regiment remembered its service decades after the war.