Gary W. Gallagher

Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of more than forty books on the Civil War era, including The Confederate War, The Union War, and The Enduring Civil War. He is best known for his scholarship on Confederate military history and his arguments that Union soldiers fought primarily to preserve the Republic rather than to abolish slavery, while also being active in Civil War battlefield preservation.