ARTHUR W. BERGERON, JR.
Biography
Bergeron
was a Reference Historian with the United States Army Military History
Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where he worked since
February 2004. He was the Historian at Pamplin Historical Park & The
National Museum of the Civil War Soldier near Petersburg, Virginia,
from 1996 to 2003. Bergeron was Chief of Interpretive Services for the
Louisiana Office of State Parks from 1987-1996. From 1981-1986, he was
Historian at the Port Hudson State Historic Site, a Civil War
battlefield site. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bergeron received his
bachelor’s, masters, and doctoral degrees in American history from
Louisiana State University, where he studied under the late Professor T.
Harry Williams and Professor William J. Cooper, Jr. Bergeron was a
veteran of the United States army and served in the Republic of Vietnam
from 1969-1970. He was a member of the Louisiana Historical Association
(former president; Fellow of the Association), Society of Civil War
Historians, Blue & Gray Education Society, and Harrisburg Civil War
Round Table. Bergeron was a past president of the Richmond and Baton
Rouge Civil War Round Tables.
Bergeron was the author,
co-author, or editor of nearly a dozen books, including the following: Guide
to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865 (1989); Confederate
Mobile, 1861-1865 (1991); The Civil War Reminiscences of Major
Silas T. Grisamore, CSA (1993); Louisianians in the Civil War,
co-edited with Lawrence L. Hewitt (2002); The Civil War in
Louisiana, Part A: Military Activity (2002) and The Civil War in
Louisiana, Part B: The Home Front (2004), which make up Volume V of
the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History,
published by the Center for Louisiana Studies. The second and third
books listed above were selections of the History Book Club. His most
recent publication is A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern
Unionist, published by the University of Arkansas Press in April
2006. Bergeron’s articles and book reviews have appeared in such
scholarly journals as Civil War History, Civil War Regiments,
Louisiana History, Alabama Historical Quarterly, Columbiad,
and The Journal of Confederate History.
Among
Bergeron’s other publications are essays or chapters in the following
books: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1994), The Confederate
General (1991-1992), Civil War Battlefield Guide: America’s
Hallowed Ground (1990; second edition, 1998), Dictionary of
Louisiana Biography (1988), and Dictionary of American Military
Biography (1984). He is on the Board of Editors of Military
History of the West and served in the same capacity for Civil War
Regiments until that journal ceased publication in 2000.