Connections To Scholars
Several prominent Civil War historians have had connections to the Museum. Douglas Southall Freeman, the biographer of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, started his career at the Museum. William C. "Jack" Davis, Emory M. Thomas, and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust have all done research there. James I. Robertson, Jr., of Virginia Tech, Edwin C. Bearss, Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service, and William J. Cooper of LSU, have each served as members of the Museum’s governing board.
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