A Bibliography
About the Author
Dale E. Floyd received a B.S.Ed. in history from Ohio University and an M.A. in history from the
University of Dayton. He did additional graduate work at American University.
He was an archivist in military records at the National Archives. He has also been a historian with the
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' Office of History, the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission
and the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program.
Now retired from the U. S. government,
Floyd is a contract historian and tour guide. He is the
past chairman of the Coast Defense Study Group and is presently the president of the Civil War
Fortification Study Group.
Other publications by Dale Floyd include
Friends at Home":
Letters and Diary of
(1985)
Thomas
Owen,
York Volunteer Engineer Regiment during the Civil
and Military
A Selective Bibliography (1992).
Acknowledgments
Dr. Martin Gordon, Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is the advisor
to the Guides to Environmental Research series. Marilyn Hunter, also of the Office of History,
provided editorial and technical support. Susan Carroll edited the manuscript, and Vinod Ajmani
designed the cover.
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