Blake Magner To Retire As CWN Book Review Editor
Longtime Civil War News Book Review Editor Blake A. Magner is retiring from that position. He succeeded Michael A. Mullins, who died unexpectedly, 20 years ago and has since handled some 4,000 reviews. Magner authored and co-authored a number of books including Battlefield Commanders; Gettysburg, Traveller and Company; The Horses of Gettysburg; and At Peace With Honor: The Civil War Burials of Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is compiling a Battle of Gettysburg encyclopedia, which he hopes to have released for the 150th anniversary. His newest work, Civil War Quiz Book, will be published next year. Magner has written for Civil War Times Illustrated, Military Images, The Gettysburg Magazine and Blue & Gray magazine. His work as a Civil War cartographer and photographer has appeared in nearly 90 volumes. He is also the owner of C.W. Historicals, a publisher of fine Civil War and related volumes. He has been studying the Civil War since 1962 with a specific interest in the Army of the Potomac and Army of Northern Virginia between August 1862 and the end of the Gettysburg Campaign. Magner was chairman of the Gen. John Gibbon Memorial Committee that erected a monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1988. In 1991 he surveyed battlefields for potential preservation for the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (now Civil War Preservation Trust). A native of Massachusetts, he moved to New Jersey after four years with the U.S. Navy, including on South Vietnamese waterways. He has a master’s degree in biology and worked through the 1980s as a chemist before becoming an independent historian in 1990. Magner says his areas of interest include “just about everything from the War of Jenkins’ Ear through the late 18th century, the 19th century and ending with the death of Theodore Roosevelt.” He also has a working knowledge of the Normandy landings and the Vietnam War and studies history, literature, personalities, the founding fathers and politics. Anyone interested in the position of book review editor should contact Kay Jorgensen at (800) 777-1862 or mail@civilwarnews.com.
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