Barton A. Myers
Myers teaches courses on the military history, Presidential history, the American Civil War, the U.S. South, and public history.
Barton A. Myers
Martin and Brooke Stein Professor of History
- Newcomb Hall 223
- P: 540-458-8776
- E: myersb@wlu.edu
Education
- Ph.D. 2009 University of Georgia, Athens
- M.A. 2005 University of Georgia, Athens
- B.A. 2003 College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Current Research
Professor Myers is currently writing a book on the southern born commanders that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Teaching
- American Civil War
- Evolution of American Warfare
- The Art of Command during the American Civil War
- American Experience with Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency
- Reconstruction America
- U.S. History 1840-1861
Selected Publications
Book
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The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2017). (Co-edited with Brian D. McKnight)
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Rebels against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists (Cambridge University Press, October 2014).
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Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, October 2009, Paperback November 2011). Winner of the 2009 Jules and Frances Landry Award for the best book on a southern studies topic.
Recent Journal Articles/Book Chapters
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2025: “Partisan Rangers: Examining a Community of Irregular Civil War Officers, 1861-1865,” Matthew Stith and David Schieffler eds., Hundreds of Little Wars: Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War (forthcoming, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025).
- 2024: “Bvt. Major General Emory Upton’s Military Policy of the United States and the Origins of U.S. Army Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century” in Spencer D. Bakich and J. Patrick Rhamey eds., The Sources of Great Power (Oxford, U.K.: Routledge Press, 2024).
- 2023: “’A Martyr in the Cause of Liberty’: The Death and Burial of John Rodgers Meigs,” in Brian Jordan and Jonathan White eds., Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2023).
- 2022: “What If Robert E. Lee Had Waged a Guerrilla War with his Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865?” in Chris Mackowski and Brian Matthew Jordan eds., The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie Publishers, 2022).