Sad passing of a Civil War history icon

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He is a giant among Civil War history writers.

James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr. . . . held the . . . “Sally” Miles Professorship at Virginia Tech from 1976 until his appointment in 1992 as Alumni Distinguished Professor

Bud & Sally

“For fully six decades Bud Robertson was a dominant figure in his field, and a great encouragement to all who would study our turbulent past during the middle of the 19th century,” said William C. “Jack” Davis, former director of the center and himself the author or editor of more than 50 books on the Civil War and the history of the South.

Selected works:
The Stonewall Brigade (1963)
General A.P. Hill (1987)
Soldiers, Blue and Gray (1988)
Civil War! America Becomes One Nation (1992)
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend (1997)