Charles P. Roland (1918–2022)

Author of An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War

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About the Author

Dr. Charles P. Roland is emeritus professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as an educator and historian, including service as the visiting professor of military history at both the United States Army War College and the United States Military show more Academy. His biography, Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics, is the definitive study of that controversial Confederate general. Among his other Civil War works are The Confederacy and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Dr. Roland lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, Allie Lee. show less

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Works by Charles P. Roland

Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics (1987) 76 copies

The Confederacy (1960) 74 copies

Reflections on Lee (1995) 41 copies

The Improbable Era: The South Since World War II (1975) 23 copies

Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War (1997) 19 copies

Jefferson Davis's Greatest General: Albert Sidney Johnston (2000) 14 copies

History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History (2007) 12 copies

My Odyssey Through History: Memoirs of War and Academe (2003) 10 copies

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Visiting Our Past: America's Historylands (1977) 417 copies, 1 review

The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston: His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States (1879) — Introduction, some editions — 55 copies, 1 review

My Century in History: Memoirs (2006) — Foreword — 13 copies

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