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- Harry Pfanz, former chief historian for Gettysburg National Military Park, passed away on January 27 after a long illness.
Gettysburg-The Second Day (Civil War America): Pfanz, Harry W ...
- Harry Pfanz, former chief historian for Gettysburg National Military Park, passed away on January 27 after a long illness.
Harry Pfanz, historian who wrote Gettysburg trilogy, dies at 93
- Harry W. Pfanz, a Civil War historian who wrote an acclaimed trilogy of the Battle of Gettysburg, a bloody clash in July that turned the tide of the war in the North’s favor, died Jan.
Today, we learned of the passing of an eminent historian, Harry Pfanz. Mr. Pfanz served for ten years as a historian at Gettysburg National Military Park. He later served as the Superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, and as the Chief Historian of the National Park Service. His three-part tactical study of the battle of Gettysburg, in my opinion, has no equal in the scholarship of that battle. Personally, though I've never met Mr. Pfanz, his books played a pivotal role in my developing interest in the Civil War, and in setting my eventual career path.
My interest in the Civil War was kindled in 1998. That summer, while visiting my grandparents in Ocala, Florida, I picked up and read The Killer Angels. I spent long hours that week on their porch swing out front, breezing through the book. During the long, two-day car ride back north I barely put down Gods and Generals, Jeff Shaara's prequel to his father's classic. Within a few weeks, I had the
Harry Willcox Pfanz, 93, Civil War author and former chief historian of the National Park Service, died of natural causes at his home in Gaithersburg, Md., on Jan. 27. Harry Willcox Pfanz was born Dec. 9, 1921, in Bexley, Ohio, and grew up on a farm. Harry W. Pfanz (1921-2015) is author of a trilogy of books on the Battle of Gettysburg. Although Dr. Pfanz (“Harry,” to those of us who saw him,) continued, on an infrequent basis, to make research trips in the years that followed, he spoke to all most fluently through his collective writing on the Battle of Gettysburg.
My interest in the Civil War was kindled in 1998. That summer, while visiting my grandparents in Ocala, Florida, I picked up and read The Killer Angels. I spent long hours that week on their porch swing out front, breezing through the book. During the long, two-day car ride back north I barely put down Gods and Generals, Jeff Shaara's prequel to his father's classic. Within a few weeks, I had the
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| Harry W. Pfanz is author of seveal books. | |
| Harry W. Pfanz, a Civil War historian who wrote an acclaimed trilogy of the Battle of Gettysburg, a bloody clash in July 1863 that turned the tide of the war in the North’s favor, died Jan. | |
| Harry Pfanz sadly died in 2015 at the age of 93. |
Harry Willcox Pfanz | Obituaries |
- Harry Willcox Pfanz, American historian.