His first book, The March to the Sea and Beyond was a
pioneering attempt to reconstruct the lives and experience of
common soldiers. It received three major national prizes: the
Bell Irvin Wiley Award of the National Historical Society; the
Fletcher Pratt Award; and the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum
of the Confederacy. His second book, Forged in Battle,
examined race relations within the Union army. One major scholar
declared that this book established Glatthaar “as the leading
authority on black troops in the Civil war.” For the second time,
Glatthaar received the Bell Irvin Wiley Award, as well as the
American Society of Military History’s 1991 award for the best book
in military history. His most recent book was Partners in
Command, on the relationship among Civil War leaders. All
three of his books have been Main Selections of the History Book
Club. In 1991-92, he held the prestigious Harold K. Johnson
Visiting Professorship at the Army Military History Institute at
the U.S. Army War College. Professor Glatthaar has just completed
a book on the Oneida Indians in the American Revolution, and he is
currently writing a study of Robert E. Lee’s army.
Curriculum Vitae
