Stephen W. Sears

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Stephen Ward Sears (b. July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

A graduate of Lakewood High School and Oberlin College, Sears attended a journalism seminar at Radcliffe-Harvard. As an author he has forged a reputation as the premier writer for works encompassing the American Civil War. A few of his titles are Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam and To The Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. His style throws you into the turmoil of battle and draws a picture in your mind of sometimes frantic, sometimes steely generals as they tempt fate and make the decisions that created the destiny of our nation. He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company.

Sears resides in Norwalk, Connecticut.

[edit] Bibliography

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
• George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon Ticknor & Fields, NY, 1988.
• The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865, Ticknor & Fields, New York (edited by Sears, 1989).
• To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, Ticknor & Fields, New York, New York, 1992.
• Chancellorsville, Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
• Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
• Gettysburg, Houghton Mifflin, 2003.