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 11 November 1928 in Wichita, Kansas.[1]

He died on 14 November 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
  1. "Albert E. Castel". www.hillsdalecounty.info. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
  2. "Albert E. Castel III obituary | WMU News | Western Michigan University". wmich.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
  3. "Albert E. Castel". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
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