Edward Longacre
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Edward G. Longacre (born December 22, 1946) is an American historian and writer. He specializes in American Civil War historiography. He received a doctorate in American history from Temple University, where he studied under the late Professor Russell F. Weigley.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/out-of-the-shadows.htm|title=Out of the Shadows: Interview with Civil War Historian Edward G. Longacre|website=www.historynet.com|date=July 15, 2021 |accessdate=2021-09-26}} Since 2000, he has been an honorary director of the United States Cavalry Association.{{Cite web|url=https://uscavalryassociation.org/usca-officials/|title=USCA Officials|website=uscavalryassociation.org|accessdate=2021-09-26}}
Life
He was born on December 22, 1946.{{cite web|url=https://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/addresses/longacre/index.html|title=Cousins at War: Fitz and Rooney Lee, by Edward G. Longacre|website=leefamilyarchive.org|accessdate=1 June 2018}} He was born and raised in New Jersey and has been a resident of Audubon, New Jersey.[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/316818229/ "Author seeking Civil War data"], The Home News, October 12, 1975. Accessed January 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com "Audubon - Author Edward G. Longacre, who is researching a history of the 12th N.J. Volunteer Infantry, 1862-65, i3 seeking wartime letters, diaries, memoirs and photographs."
Career
He is famous for his numerous biographies of Civil War generals.{{cite web|url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/edward-longacre/|title=Edward Longacre|date=27 June 2017|publisher=|accessdate=1 June 2018}} He has received multiple awards including the Moncado Prize in 1981,{{Cite web|url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/moncado.html|title=Moncado Prize|website=The Society for Military History|access-date=2018-10-28|archive-date=May 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509075819/http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/moncado.html|url-status=dead}} the Fletcher Pratt Award in 1986,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwrtnyc.org/fletcher-pratt-award.html|title=Fletcher Pratt Award|website=Civil War Round Table of New York|access-date=2018-06-06}} the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 2004,{{Cite web|url=http://www.militaryorderofthestarsandbars.org/service-programs/literary-awards/douglas-southall-freeman-history-award/|title=Douglas Southall Freeman History Award|website=Military Order of the Stars and Bars|access-date=2018-09-30}} and the Dr. James I. Robertson Jr. Literary Prize for in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oupress.com/books/14156976/the-early-morning-of-war|title=The Early Morning of War|website=University of Oklahoma Press|access-date=2018-11-25}}
Bibliography
His notable books include:{{cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84037671/ |title=A soldier to the last : Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in blue and gray / |publisher=Worldcat.org |date= |accessdate=2018-06-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13168.Edward_G_Longacre|title=Edward G. Longacre|website=www.goodreads.com|accessdate=1 October 2018}}
- Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier And The Man {{ISBN|9780306813122}}
- General John Buford: A Military Biography {{ISBN|9780306812743}}
- General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and the Man {{ISBN|9780306812699}}
- War in the Ruins: The American Army's Final Battle Against Nazi Germany {{ISBN|9781594161179}}
- Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac {{ISBN|9780811710497}}
- The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 {{ISBN|9780806144986}}
- Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 {{ISBN|9780811708982}}
- Custer and His Wolverines: The Michigan Cavalry Brigade, 1861-1865 {{ISBN|9780306813832}}
- Custer: The Making of a Young General {{ISBN|9781510733190}}
- The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July 1863 {{ISBN|9780803279414}}
- A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866 {{ISBN|9780811700122}}
- Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg {{ISBN|9781640124585}}
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:People from Audubon, New Jersey
Category:Writers from Camden County, New Jersey
Category:Historians of the American Civil War
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:20th-century American male writers