Born: 11/11/1928   Wichita , KS
Parents: Dorothy W. Castel and Albert E. Castell Jr.
Children: Ann, Charles
Address(es):
Permanent :
166 Westwood Drive
Hillsdale , MI 49242
USA

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Victors in blue : how Union generals fought the Confederates, battled each other, and won the Civil War - with Brooks D. Simpson.	History	Adult	Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas	2011
	Articles of war : winners, losers, and some who were both in the Civil War - compilation of previously published articles	Biography , History	Adult	Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books	2001
	Tom Taylor's Civil War - Thomas Taylor was a junior officer who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and on the march through Georgia. Piecing together vivid descriptions of the various skirmishes from his diaries and letters.	History	Adult	Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas	2000
	Lee, Grant, and Sherman : a study in leadership in the 1864-65 campaign / by Alfred H. Burne - introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman ; foreword and endnotes by Albert Castel.	History	Adult	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas	2000
	Entry in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War	History	Adult	Encyclopedia Britannica	2000
	Bloody Bill Anderson : the short, savage life of a Civil War guerrilla - Co-author: Thomas Goodrich.	Biography , History	Adult	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas	1998 -2005
	The Campaign for Atlanta	History	Adult	Eastern National Park and Monument Association	1996
	Winning and Losing in the Civil War: Essays and Stories	History	Adult	Columbia : University of South Carolina Press	1996
	Various articles	Non Fiction		Civil War Times Illustrated, Michigan History, Historic Traveler, Civil War History: a Journal of th	1993 -2001
	Decision in the West: the Atlanta Campaign of 1864	History	Adult	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas	1992
	Three years with Quantrill : a true story told by his scout, John McCorkle / written by O.S. Barton - with notes by Albert Castel ; commentary by Herman Hattaway.	History	Adult	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press	1992
	Presidency of Andrew Johnson	History	Adult	Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas	1979
	The Yeas and Nays: Key Congressional Votes, 1774-1945 - Co-author: Scott L. Gibson.	History	Adult	[Kalamazoo : New Issues Press, Institute of Public Affairs, Western Michigan University	1975
	General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West	Biography , History	Adult	Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press	1968
	William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times	Biography , History	Adult	New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.	1962
	A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865 - Republished 1979.	History	Adult	Ithaca, N.Y., Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press	1958 -1979

What is the aim or goal of your writing: To inform, stimulate, and entertain.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Harry S. Truman Award given by the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City for "exceptional and meritorious service in the dissemination and presentation of Civil War military history"	1994
Lincoln Prize for best Civil War book published in 1992 "Decision in the West: the Atlanta Campaign of 1864"	1993
Richard Barksdale Harwell Award given by the Atlanta Civil War Round Table for "Decision in the West"	1993
Eastern National Parks Association Award for Best Article in Military History	1989
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West selected as one of the hundred best Civil War books by the Society of Civil War Historians	1986
Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, Western Michigan University. (Resigned it in protest of the university's hiring policy in 1991)	1985
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West selected as one of the hundred best Civil War books by Civil War Times Illustrated	1985
Best Author Award from Civil War Times Illustrated for three-part article on W.T. Sherman	1979
American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant	1977
Honorable Mention, Albert J. Beveridge Award of American Historical Association, for A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865	1957

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