Anne J. Bailey, Professor of History
Education: Ph.D., 1987, Texas Christian University
Areas of Interest Civil War, South, Military
Courses Taught
The Civil War, The Antebellum South, Special Topics Courses: The Civil War in Film, The South in Film, Antebellum Southern Culture, Writing Southern History, Sectionalism (1840-1860), The American West, American Military History, The Age of Jackson, World War II.
Recent Awards
Dr. Bailey received the 2005 Grady McWhiney Award of Merit presented by the Civil War Round Table of Dallas. In addition, her book The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 won the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award by the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta for the best book on the Civil War published in 2000. This book was also a selection of The History Book Club. Dr. Bailey was awarded the Excellence in Research and Publication Award at GCSU in 2001 and 2006-2007.
Recent Projects
Dr. Bailey is the author or editor of eight books on the Civil War. She has written more than 150 book chapters, articles, and book reviews on the Civil War in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi.
She is the editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly, and general editor of "Great Campaigns of the Civil War" (University of Nebraska Press). She also edits the SCWH Newsletter, a quarterly publication of the Society of Civil War Historians.
Books
Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. University of Georgia Press, 2006.
In the Saddle with the Texans: Day-by-Day with Parsons's Texas Cavalry Brigade. McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004.
War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign. Scholarly Resources, 2002.
The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2000.
Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders. Edited by Anne J. Bailey and Daniel E. Sutherland. University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War. With Walter J. Fraser, Jr. University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
Texans in the Confederate Cavalry. McWhiney Foundation Press, 1995.
Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. Texas Christian University Press, 1989.
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