Draft:Harry W. Pfanz

Harry W. Pfanz (December 9, 1921 - January 27, 2015) was an American historian who specialized in the American Civil War. . Pfanz was born in Bexley, Ohio. In 1943, he graduated from Ohio State University. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was badly wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he earned his Phd at Ohio State. From 1974-1980, he was chief historian at the U.S. National Park Service In 1987, after he retired, he wrote Gettysburg: The Second Day. Richard Snow writing in The New York Times called the book "[an] admirable tapestry, and the result is a tribute worthy of the efforts of the men who took part..."

Books

 * Gettysburg: The Second Day, University of North Carolina Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0807817490

Selected articles

 * "The Surrender Negotiations Between General Johnston and General Sherman, April 1865," 'Military Affairs,'' vol. 16, no. 2 (Summer, 1952), pp. 61-70. In JSTOR.