Krick, Robert K. 1943-
(Robert Kenneth Krick)

PERSONAL:

Born December 3, 1943; son of Russell K. (a preacher) and Flora (a registered nurse; maiden name, Parsons) Krick; married Barbara Jean Rensch (an administrator), July 31, 1980; children: Robert E. L., William B. Education: Pacific Union College, B.A., 1965; San Jose State University, M.A., 1967.

ADDRESSES:

Home—P.O. Box 1327, Fredericksburg, VA 22402.

CAREER:

Writer and historian. Fort McHenryNational Monument, chief historian, 1967-69; Fort Necessity National Battlefield, superintendent, 1969-72; Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, chief historian, 1972-2002. Board member,Stonewall Jackson House, 1988-99, Civil War Library and Museum, 1995-2000, Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, 1995—, Civil War Preservation Trust, 1999—, and Lee-Jackson Education Foundation, 1999—; Eastern National Part and Monument Association, member of research and publications board; speaker at conferences and symposia.

MEMBER:

Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (vice president, 1987-93), Company of Military Historians (fellow), Richmond Battlefields Association (board member, 2000—).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Nevins-Freeman Award for achievement in Civil War scholarship, 1988; Douglas Southall Freeman Award, Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, and ENP&MA Author's Award, all 1990, forStonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain; Harry S TrumanAward for achievement in Civil War scholarship, 1992; Preservation Award for Written History, Spotsylvania Preservation Association, 1992; W.W. Hassler Award, Civil War Education Association, 1996.

WRITINGS:

Parker's Virginia Battery, Virginia Book Co. (Berryville, VA), 1975, 2nd edition, Broadfoot Publishing (Wilmington, NC), 1989.

Neale Books: An Annotated Bibliography, Morningside Press (Dayton, OH), 1976.

Lee's Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia, Morningside Press (Dayton, OH), 1979, 5th edition, 2005.

(Coauthor) An Index-Guide to the Southern Historical Society Papers, 1876-1982, two volumes, Kraus International Publications (Millwood, NY), 1980.

The Gettysburg Death Register, Morningside Press (Dayton, OH), 1981, 4th edition, 2004.

The 9th Virginia Cavalry, H.E. Howard (Lynchburg, VA), 1982, 4th edition, 1988.

(Coauthor) Wildcat Cavalry, Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1982.

The 30th Virginia Infantry, H.E. Howard (Lynchburg, VA), 1983, 3rd edition, 1988.

A Virginia Marine on Iwo Jima, H.E. Howard (Lynchburg, VA), 1987.

(Coauthor) Military Bibliography of the Civil War,Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1987.

The Fredericksburg Artillery, H.E. Howard (Lynchburg, VA), 1987.

(Coauthor) Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1989.

Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain (History Book Club selection), University of North CarolinaPress (Chapel Hill, NC), 1990, 3rd edition, 1997.

(Coauthor) Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1991.

(Coauthor) Gettysburg: The First Day, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1991.

(Coauthor) Gettysburg: The Second Day, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1993.

(Coauthor) Gettysburg: The Third Day, University ofNorth Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1994.

Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (History Book Club selection), William Morrow (New York, NY), 1996, 2nd edition, also 1996.

(Coauthor) Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1996.

"… Like a Stone Wall:" General Thomas J. Jackson, CSA, Farnsworth House (Gettysburg, PA), 1997.

(Coauthor) The Wilderness Campaign, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1997.

(Coauthor) The Spotsylvania Campaign, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1998.

(Coauthor) The Antietam Campaign, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1999.

(Coauthor) The Richmond Campaign of 1862,University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2000.

The American Civil War: The War in the East, 1863-1865, Osprey Publishing (Oxford, England), 2001.

The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia,Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2002.

(Coauthor) The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862(History Book Club selection), University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg, edited by David G. Martin, Longstreet House (Hightstown, NJ), 1986; Confederate Military History, edited by Clement A. Evans, Broadfoot Publishing (Wilmington, DE), 1987; The Confederate General, six volumes, edited by William C. Davis, National Historical Society (Harrisburg, PA), 1991-92; The Civil War: The Best of American Heritage,edited by Stephen W. Sears, American Heritage Press (New York, NY), 1991; and Lee the Soldier,edited by Gary W. Gallagher, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1996. Contributor of articles and reviews to many periodicals, including American Heritage, Maryland Line, Civil War Regiments, Blue and Gray, and Military History Quarterly.

EDITOR OF REPRINT AND AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION

William C. Oates, The War between the Union and the Confederacy, Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1974.

Robert Stiles, Four Years under Marse Robert, Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1977.

William S. Dunlop, Lee's Sharpshooters, Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1982.

Joseph B. Polley, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie,Butternut Press (Gaithersburg, MD), 1984.

William Allan, The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, Press of Morningside Bookshop (Dayton, OH), 1984.

Clifford Dowdey, Lee's Last Campaign, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1993.

Clifford Dowdey, The Seven Days, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1993.

Richard W. Corbin, Letters from a Confederate Staff Officer to His Family in Europe, Butternut & Blue (Baltimore, MD), 1993.

William Allan, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia, Da Capo Press (New York, NY), 1995.

William T. Poague, Gunner with Stonewall, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1998.

Nicholas A. Davis, Chaplain Davis and Hood's Texas Brigade, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1999.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Virginia's Civil War Weather; Ten Generals in Lee's Army; Eight Days in May: Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle and Death.

SIDELIGHTS:

Robert K. Krick told CA: "Across the three decades since my first book appeared, the majority of my writing has been aimed at the same target: subjects related to the American Civil War in Virginia and environs, based on definitive research but presented in a manner that I hope remains accessible to a wide readership.

"The flood of contemporary accounts that survives today provides a gratifyingly rich texture for reconstruction of that seminal point in the national history. The Breadth of the material offers the chance to recreate some semblance of the experiences of Americans fighting and suffering in the conflict. After tracking down eyewitness testimony in what I have intended to be definitive detail, I have written about battles, personalities, units, and civilians.

"Some of my work, by contrast, has been reference material. Lee's Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia, Neale Books: An Annotated Bibliography, and some of the unit histories are designed to be of lasting value for their accumulated research, not as literary properties."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Southern History, August, 2003, Otho C. Campbell, review of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia, p. 715.