Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams

Contributors

Contributors Note: The institution granting the contributor’s highest degree is given in parentheses following his name. Joseph G. Dawson III (Louisiana State University) is Professor of History at Texas A&M University–College Station. His books include Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862–1877 (1982), which won the General Kemper Williams Prize, and Doniphan’s Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War (1999), and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Military History and Civil War History, among other journals. He has contributed several chapters to edited books, including “The First of the Modern Wars?” in Themes in the American Civil War (2010), edited by Susan-Mary Grant. Ralph L. Eckert (Louisiana State University) attended Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1975) before moving to Louisiana to study under T. Harry Williams. Since 1983, he has taught history at Penn State– Erie, Behrend College, specializing in Revolutionary America, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and American military history. He authored John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southern, American (1989) and published widely in the Civil War and military history fields. A. Wilson Greene (Louisiana State University) is the executive director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier near Petersburg, Virginia. His books include Whatever You Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson (2005), Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (2006), and The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign : Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion (second edition, 2008). He has been a study leader and tour guide for the Smithsonian travel program since 1989. Contributors 328 Lawrence Lee Hewitt (Louisiana State University) was professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University. The recipient of SLU’s 1991 President ’s Award for Excellence in Research, the 1991 Charles L. Dufour Award, and the 2011 Dr. Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. Award, he is the author of Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi (1987). His other publications include The Confederate High Command & Related Topics (1990) and Leadership during the Civil War (1992), with Roman Heleniak; Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (2008), with Bruce Allardice; and, with Art Bergeron, Louisianans in the Civil War (2002), Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, volume 1 (2010), volume 2 (2010), and volume 3 (2011). Brian Holden Reid (University of London) is professor of American history and military institutions, King’s College London, and since 2010 an academic member of College Council. A former head of the Department of War Studies (2001–7), in 2007 he was awarded the Fellowship of King’s College London, the highest honor the college can award its alumni and staff. He is an Honorary Vice President of the Society for Army Historical Research and served as a trustee of the Society for Military History, 2003–11, and, in 2004–10, a member of the Council of the National Army Museum, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society , the Royal United Services Institute, and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. In 2004–5 he was the first non-American to serve on the Lincoln Prize Jury Panel, and in 2007 he was the first non-American to deliver the Elizabeth Roller Bottimore Lecture at the University of Richmond, Virginia, during the Lee Bicentenary. His books include J. F. C. Fuller: Military Thinker (1987), The Origins of the American Civil War (1996), Studies in British Military Thought (1998), Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation (2005), and America’s Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861–1863 (2008). George C. Rable (Louisiana State University) is the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. A native of Lima, Ohio, he received his B.A. from Bluffton College (1972) before attending graduate school at LSU. His books include Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (2002), which won the Lincoln Prize, the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award; The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (1994); Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award; and But There Was No Peace: The Role Contributors 329 of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984). His most recent book, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History...