Gary W. Gallagher
Gary
W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American
Civil War at the University of Virginia.
A native of Los Angeles, California, he received his B.A. from Adams State College of Colorado (1972) and his M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1982) from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught for twelve years at Penn State University before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching focus on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
He is the author of:
Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General (University of North Carolina
Press, 1985; History Book Club selection),
The Confederate War (Harvard University Press, 1997; HBC selection),
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (Louisiana State University Press,
1998; HBC selection),
The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861-May 1863 (HBC selection),
Lee and His Army in Confederate History (University of North Carolina
Press, 2001);
editor of Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of
General Edward Porter Alexander (University of North Carolina Press,
1989; HBC Main Selection);
editor and co-author of Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign
(Kent State University Press, 1989),
Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign (Kent
State University Press, 1991),
The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
(Kent State University Press, 1992; HBC selection),
The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
(Kent State University Press, 1993; HBC selection),
The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond (University of North Carolina
Press, 1994; HBC Dual Main Selection),
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock (University
of North Carolina Press, 1995),
Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath (University of North Carolina
Press, 1996),
Lee the Soldier (University of Nebraska Press, 1996; HBC Main Selection),
The Wilderness Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 1997; HBC
selection);
The Spotsylvania Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 1998),
The Antietam Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 1999; HBC
selection),
The 1862 Richmond Campaign: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (University
of North Carolina Press, 2000; HBC selection),
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (co-edited with Alan
T. Nolan, Indiana University Press, 2000),
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 (University of North Carolina
Press, 2003; HBC selection).
He also has published more than nine dozen articles and notes in scholarly journals and popular historical magazines, serves as editor of two book series at the University of North Carolina Press ("Civil War America" and “Military Campaigns of the Civil War”), and has appeared regularly on the Arts and Entertainment Network's series "Civil War Journal" as well as participating in other television projects in the field.
Professor Gallagher received the 1989 Founders Award for the best
edited work in the field of Civil War history,
the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award for the best work in
southern history,
the 1991 Nevins-Freeman Award for distinguished contributions to the
field of Civil War studies,
the 1991 Richard B. Harwell Award for the best work in the field of
Civil War history,
the 1998 Laney Prize for the best book in Civil War history,
the 1998 William Woods Hassler Award for meritorious contributions
to the field of Civil War studies,
the 1999 Fletcher Pratt Award for the best non-fiction book on the
Civil War,
and shared the 1998 Lincoln Prize (with three other authors).
He delivered the 1995 Frank L. Klement Endowed Lecture at Marquette
University and the 1996 Littlefield Endowed Lectures at the University
of Texas at Austin, and in 2001-2002 he was the Times-Mirror Foundation
Distinguished Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino,
California.
Active in the field of historic preservation, Gallagher was president from 1987 to mid-1994 of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (an organization with a membership of more than 11,500 representing all 50 states). He also served as a member of the Board of the Civil War Trust and has given testimony about preservation before Congressional committees on several occasions.
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