Parrish, T(homas) Michael

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PARRISH, T(homas) Michael

PARRISH, T(homas) Michael. American, b. 1953. Genres: Military/ Defense/Arms control, History, Bibliography. Career: Jenkins Rare Book and Publishing Co., Austin, TX, manager, 1976-91; T. Michael Parrish, Rare Americana, proprietor, 1992-93; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, archivist and historian, 1994-. Louisiana State University, member of founders' circle and national board of directors of U.S. Civil War Center; Society of Civil War Historians, president, 1997-99; Louisiana State University Press, Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the Civil War, series editor, 1997-; University of North Carolina Press, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era, co-editor, 1997-. Publications: (with R.M. Willingham Jr.) Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender, 1987; (ed. and author of introduction and notes) David French Boyd, Reminiscences of the War in Virginia, 1989; (ed. and author of introduction) Douglas John Cater, As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A., 1990; Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, 1992; (ed. with N.D. Brown, and author of introduction) Joseph Palmer Blessington, The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division, 1993; (ed. and author of introduction) Alfred Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War between the States, 1994; (co-ed. with T.W. Cutrer) Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family, 1997. Work represented in anthologies.

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