William C. Davis (1) (1946–)
Author of Brother against Brother
For other authors named William C. Davis, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
William C. Davis is a retired history professor who taught at Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; the American Battlefield Trust; the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in show more Petersburg, Virginia; the National Park Service; and the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries. show less
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Works by William C. Davis
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis (1998) 387 copies
Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged (2015) 168 copies
Touched by Fire: A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War (1985) 136 copies
The Civil War Times Illustrated Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume II: Vicksburg to Appomattox (1994) 112 copies
A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier (1995) 105 copies
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade (American Military History Series) (1990) — Editor — 98 copies
The Civil War Times Illustrated Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume I: Fort Sumter to Gettysburg (1994) 97 copies
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War: The Soldiers, Generals, Weapons and Battles (1656) 84 copies
Brothers in Arms: The Lives and Experiences of the Men Who Fought the Civil War-In Their Own Words (1995) 79 copies
The West: From Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee : The Turbulent Story of the Settling of Frontier America (1994) 59 copies
The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History (2011) 59 copies
The Civil War: A Historical Account of America's War of Secession (Classic Conflicts) (1996) 33 copies
Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (2016) 12 copies
The Confederate General Volume 5 Peck, William R. to Steele, William (National Historical Society The Confederate… (1991) 9 copies
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S WAR OF SECESSION (CLASSIC CONFLICTS) (1996) 9 copies
Civil War Times 8 copies
The Whartons' War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865… (2022) 6 copies
The Confederate General, Volume 6 6 copies
The Civil War - 3 Volume Set In Slipcase - The Fighting Men Of The Civil War; The Commanders; The Battlefields (1999) 5 copies
Rebels and Yankees: Fighting Men of the Civil War, The Battlefields of the Civil War, The Commanders of the Civil War… (2001) 5 copies
The Imperiled Union (The Deep Waters of the Proud & Stand in the Day of Battle, Volumes 1 & 2) (1983) 4 copies
LE GRAND LIVRE DE L'OUEST AMERICAIN 3 copies
Amerikas Wilder Westen — Author — 1 copy
Civil War Times Illustrated, Volume XVII, Number 9, Volume XVIII Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 1 copy
Associated Works
The Civil War Paintings of Mort Kunstler, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Antietam (2006) — Foreword — 31 copies
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- Legal name
- Davis, William Charles
- Birthdate
- 1946
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Education
- Sonoma State University, B.A. History 1968
Sonoma State University, M.A. History 1969
Doc. Hum. Let. Lincoln Memorial University, 1976 - Occupations
- historian
- Organizations
- Civil War Times Illustrated (editor)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Awards and honors
- Jefferson Davis Award (3)
T. Harry Williams Memorial Award
Bell I. Wiley Prize
Fletcher Pratt Award
Phi Alpha Theta Award
Harry S. Truman Award - Short biography
- William C. Davis is the recipient of three Jefferson Davis Awards as well as the T. Harry Williams Award, Bell I. Wiley Award, Fletcher Pratt Award, Phi Alpha Theta Award, and Harry S Truman Award. He lives in Pennsylvania, barely fifty miles form the battlefields of Gettysburg. [from The Cause Lost (1996)]
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