Albert E. Castel (November 11, 1928 – November 14, 2014) was an American historian and author. He specialized in

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history and

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Life

He was born on November 11, 1928, in

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. He obtained a

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and

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from

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in 1950 and 1951, respectively. In 1955, he earned a PhD from the

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. His dissertation, entitled ''A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865'', won honorable mention in the

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's Albert J. Beveridge Competition, after which it was published in 1958 as a monograph by

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. From 1960 to 1991, he taught history at the

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. He died on November 14, 2014, in

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Awards

He won the

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for Best Civil War book in 1992 for his book ''Decision in the West''.

Bibliography

* 1958. ''A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861–1865''.

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(Reprint:

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: Kansas Heritage Press, 1992). * 1962. ''William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times''.

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(Reissued:

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, 1999). * 1968. ''General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West''.

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(Reissued, 1993). * 1979. ''The Presidency of Andrew Johnson''.

: Regents Press of Kansas. * 1992. ''Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864''.

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. * 1996. ''Winning and Losing the Civil War''.

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. * 1997. ''Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind''.

. * 1998. ''Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla'' (with Tom Goodrich).

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(Reissued:

, 2006). * 2001. ''Articles of War: Winners, Losers, (and Some Who Were Both) During the Civil War''.

. * 2011. ''Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War''.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Castel, Albert E. 1928 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Western Michigan University faculty University of Kansas alumni American male non-fiction writers