Gary W. Gallagher

Why Is Gary W. Gallagher Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Gary William Gallagher is an American historian specializing in the history of the American Civil War. Gallagher is currently the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for The Great Courses lecture series.

Gary W. Gallagher's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000) (100)
The Union War (2011) (90)
The Confederate War (1997) (82)
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander (1989) (48)
The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave off Defeat (1999) (46)
Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History (2014) (23)
Causes won, lost, and forgotten : how Hollywood & popular art shape what we know about the Civil War (2008) (22)
Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War (1953) (21)
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (1998) (19)
The Wilderness Campaign (1997) (14)
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock (1995) (14)
Disaffection, Persistence, and Nation: Some Directions in Recent Scholarship on the Confederacy (2009) (14)
Lee and His Army in Confederate History (2001) (12)
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (2007) (11)
Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War (2009) (11)
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history (2000) (10)
The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (2000) (10)
Lee the Soldier. (1997) (10)
A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History (2012) (10)
The Antietam Campaign (2001) (9)
The Spotsylvania Campaign (1998) (8)
Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill (1991) (7)
:Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (2009) (7)
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 by James Oakes (review) (2013) (6)
Jubal Early's raid on Washington 1864 (1989) (6)
Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath (1996) (5)
Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General (1985) (5)
The Bravest of the Brave (2010) (4)
The Antietam Campaign (2008) (4)
The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond. (1996) (4)
With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War (2001) (4)
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 (2004) (3)
Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign. (1992) (3)
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (2013) (3)
Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (2015) (3)
A Self-Study Curriculum in Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Studies for Residents and Fellows (2017) (3)
The Ragged Rebel: A Common Soldier in W.H. Parsons' Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865 (1988) (3)
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (2013) (2)
Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration (2006) (2)
The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur (2010) (2)
Memoirs of the Civil War: Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America 1861 to 1865 (2011) (2)
The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis? (2013) (2)
Bold Dragoon: The Life of J. E. B. Stuart (1986) (2)
To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery (2006) (1)
The Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864: A Crisis of High Command (1990) (1)
Contested Loyalty (2018) (1)
Hollywood Has It Both Ways: The Rise, Fall, and Reappearance of the Lost Cause in American Film (2009) (1)
Lee & his army in Confederate history (2001) (1)
Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign (review) (1987) (1)
Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians (2019) (1)
The American Ulysses: Rehabilitating U. S. Grant (2005) (0)
The Storm is Weathered: January–February, Revisited (2008) (0)
The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June–14 July 1863. By Edward G. Longacre. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986. 338 pp. $39.50.) (1987) (0)
No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River By Peter Cozzens. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xii + 281 pp. $24.95.) (1990) (0)
I Would Not Endanger the Perpetuity of This Union: November (2008) (0)
The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861 - May 1863 (2001) (0)
New Perspectives on the Union War (2020) (0)
The Wilderness Campaign. (1997) (0)
"The Fight Between the Two Iron Monsters": The Monitor Versus the Virginia as Described by Major Stephen Dodson Ramseur, C.S.A. (1984) (0)
The Fall of the Confederacy (2007) (0)
The Family War (2007) (0)
Gettysburg. Prod. by Robert Katz and Moctesuma Esparza. Turner Pictures/New Line Cinema, 1993. 252 mins (1994) (0)
A WIDOW AND HER SOLDIER (2016) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
A Nation of Their Own (2007) (0)
Lens of War (2015) (0)
Proportions of Which I Had but a Faint Conception: Early December (2008) (0)
One's Opinions Change Fast in Revolutionary Times: January–February (2008) (0)
Benjamin F. Butler and Unionist New Orleans (2009) (0)
Lee: The Soldier. (1997) (0)
Robert E. Lee at Cumberland Island and on the Analyst's Couch (1995) (0)
East of Chancellorswville Jubal a. Early at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church (1996) (0)
Cold Harbor Syndrome: Balanced, Compelling Study' Examines Grant's Overland Miscalculations (2000) (0)
Marching away from Sherman (1993) (0)
I Have to Make the Best of What I Have (1998) (0)
Introduction Massacre on the Levee (2009) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Thomas A. Desjardin (2004) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
Epilogue Why the Mutiny at Fort Jackson Matters (2009) (0)
Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on the Confederate and Union Leadership (2000) (0)
4 The Armies (2011) (0)
Everybody Now Is for the Union: April–May (2008) (0)
When Lincoln Met Emerson, and the Two Addresses (2014) (0)
Our Hearts Are Full of Hope (1997) (0)
‘‘A Sacrifice on the Altar of Slavery’’ (2013) (0)
Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga, and Ways to Write History (2014) (0)
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (2018) (0)
Cannoneers, Regulars, and Jagers: Inside Fort Jackson Before the Mutiny (2009) (0)
Conclusion: Shall It Be Peace, or a Sword? (2008) (0)
The Old South in the Crucible of War (review) (1984) (0)
Contested Loyalty (2020) (0)
The Mutiny at Fort Jackson and the Collapse of Confederate Authority (2009) (0)
Fort Jackson and the Defense of New Orleans (2009) (0)
Sherman the Writer (2014) (0)
Confederate New Orleans, February 1861 to May 1862 (2009) (0)
Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg (2018) (0)
War in their own backyard (1995) (0)
Any Decision Would Be Preferable to This Uncertainty: March–April (2008) (0)
Walt Whitman's Real Wars (2009) (0)
Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign (2015) (0)
The Net Result of the Campaign Was in Our Favor (1999) (0)
Book Review: Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent: His Dispatches from the Virginia Front, edited by R.J.M. Blackett (1991) (0)
Memoirs of the Civil War (2011) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Repeats Appomattox (2014) (0)
Building the Plain People's Confederacy (2007) (0)
The Ardor of Patriotism (2007) (0)
1 The Grand Review (2011) (0)
Jefferson Davis's Mexican War Regiment. By Joseph E. Chance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi and The Mexican War Journal of Captain Franklin Smith. Ed. by Joseph E. Chance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (1992) (0)
Using Historical Sites to Help Teach the United States Survey. (1998) (0)
New Perspectives on the Union War (2019) (0)
Scapegoat in Victory: James Longstreet and the Battle of Second Manassas (1988) (0)
Crucible of the Civil War (2006) (0)
The Worst First Year: (2019) (0)
The war that spilled onto the canvas (1994) (0)
The Cost of Independence (2007) (0)
War in Earnest (2007) (0)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Authors March On: A Review of Some Recent Publications on the Military Side of the Civil War (1988) (0)
Cwbr Author Interview: The Union War (2011) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Civil War Military Leaders Reassessed and Rehashed: Three Biographical Forays (1995) (0)
The Many Fates of the Fort Jackson Garrison (2009) (0)
Jubal Early's Raid on Washington: 1864 (review) (1990) (0)
An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General (1999) (0)
The American Civil War (2000) (0)
The Two Generals Who Resist Each Other (2015) (0)
Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America (1997) (0)
Building a legend and prolonging a war: Another look at two of Robert E. Lee's victories (1993) (0)
Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester (review) (2008) (0)
The American War: A History of the Civil War Era (2015) (0)
On the Brink of the Precipice: The Election of 1860 (2008) (0)
Blueprint for Victory (2021) (0)
The Issues of the Late Campaign Are Obsolete: Late December (2008) (0)
Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (2019) (0)
JASON PHILLIPS. Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 257. $34.95 (2009) (0)
Rebels from West Point (1987) (0)
We Know Not What a Day or Two or an Hour May Bring Forth: December–January (2008) (0)
A Calm Pervades the Political World: March (2008) (0)

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