Albert E. Castel
Albert E. Castel (1928–2014) was an American historian and author.
He specialized in Civil War history and historiography.
Life[]
He was born on November 11th, 1928 in Wichita, Kansas.[1]
He died on November, 14th 2014 in Columbus, Ohio.[2]
Career[]
He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in history and taught at the Western Michigan University from 1960 to 1991.[3]
Awards[]
He won the Lincoln Prize for Best Civil War book in 1992 for his book Decision in the West.[2]
Bibliography[]
- Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
- Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
- General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West
- William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times
- Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind
- Winning and Losing the Civil War
- The campaign for Atlanta
- Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War
- The Presidency of Andrew Johnson
- Articles of War: Winners, Losers, (and Some Who Were Both) During the Civil War
- A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865
References[]
- ^ "Albert E. Castel". www.hillsdalecounty.info. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Albert E. Castel III obituary | WMU News | Western Michigan University". wmich.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ^ "Albert E. Castel". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
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Categories:
- 1928 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century American male writers
- Western Michigan University faculty
- University of Kansas alumni
- American male non-fiction writers