Gary W. Gallagher. An authority on the military history of the Civil War, Professor Gallagher has authored Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee’s Gallant General and the National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National Battlefield Parks and edited Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, which was a main selection of the History Book of the Month Club and winner of the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman Award.
In addition, he has published dozens of articles and essays on a wide range of Civil War topics in scholarly and popular journals. He has also edited eight collections of essays and documents and written scholarly introductions to nearly twenty-five reprints of Civil War memoirs and personal accounts. He is a past president of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites. Professor Gallagher is currently writing a biography of Confederate General Jubal Early, which will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.