Bell Irvin Wiley (1906-1980)

Biography

Wiley was born in 1906 in Halls, Tennessee. He received an undergraduate degree from Asbury College and his MA from the University of Kentucky. He was awarded a Ph.D from Yale in 1933. He taught at Mississippi Southern College, the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State, and Emory University. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is best known for his writing on the Civil War. During World War II, Wiley served in the army.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• Cotton and Slavery in the History of Western Tennessee (master's thesis, University of Kentucky, 1929)
• Southern Negroes, 1861-1865 (1938)
• The Plain People of the Confederacy (1943)
• The Life of Johnny Reb, the Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1943)
• The Life of Billy Yank, the Common Soldier of the Union (1952)
• The Common Soldier in the Civil War (1952)
• A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond, Including Unpublished Letters Written from the Chimborazo Hospital (editor, 1954)
• Fourteen Hundred and 91 days in the Confederate Army: A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill for Four Years, One Month, and One Day; or, Camp Life, Day by Day, of the W.P. Lane Rangers from April 19, 1861, to May 20, 1865 (editor, 1954)
• Confederate Letters of John W. Hagen (editor, 1954)
• Reminiscences of Big I (editor, 1956)
• The Road to Appomattox (1956)
• Letters of Warren Akin, Confederate Congressman (editor, 1959)
• They Who Fought Here (1959)
• Historical Program of the U.S. Army, 1939 to Present (1961)
• American Democracy: A Documentary Record (editor, with J. Rogers Hollingsworth, 1962)
• Embattled Confederates: An Illustrated History of Southerners at War (1964)
• Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (editor, with others, 1967)
• Confederate Women (1975)
• Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869 (editor, 1980)
• Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 (editor, 1980)
• Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman (editor, 1987)
• 4 Years on the Firing Line (editor, 1987)
• Civil War Album: Complete Photographic History of the Civil War, Fort Sumter to Appomattox (editor, 2000)
• The Bell Irvin Wiley Reader (2001)

Sources and Links

• Review of Bell Irvin Wiley Reader
• Wiley alumni page at U. of Kentucky

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