Steven E. Woodworth

Steven E. Woodworth (born January 28, 1961) is an American historian specializing in studies of the American Civil War. He has written numerous books concerning the Civil War, and as a professor has taught classes on the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, and military history.

Career

Steven E. Woodsworth was born in Ohio on January 28, 1961 and spent most his early life in Illinois. He graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1982 with a B.A. in history. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at Rice University. Woodworth served as a professor at Bartlesville Wesleyan College in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, where he taught a wide variety of history courses, including on life in ancient Mesopotamia.^[1] He began working as a professor at Texas Christian University in 1997. He has taught courses there on the Old South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.^[2]

Selected works

The following is a list of several notable books written by Woodworth:^[3]

• Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (1990)
• Davis and Lee at War (1995)
• Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (1998)
• While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (2001)
• Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign (2003)
• Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865 (2005)
• Manifest Destinies: Westward Expansion and the Civil War (2010)
• This Great Struggle: America's Civil War (2011)

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