Robert P. Broadwater

Robert P. Broadwater (1958-?)was born in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, and raised in Salisbury, Pennsylvania, graduating from Salisbury Elk-Lick High School in 1976. He attended Penn State University, Altoona Campus, from 1976 to 1978, majoring in Letters, Arts and Sciences. His first book The Bronze and the Granite, was published by Daisy Publishing in 1983. To date, Broadwater has had more than thirty-five books published, primarily in the fields of Civil War and Revolutionary War history. Battle of Despair: Bentonville and the North Carolina Campaign (2004) was nominated for both the Lincoln Prize and the Douglas Southall Freeman Awards. American Generals of the Revolutionary War: A Biographical Dictionary (2007) was nominated for the George Washington Book Award. In addition to the books, Broadwater has written more than 100 magazine articles. He wrote a regular, monthly column for Military Trader Magazine for eight years, and has been a contributor to North South Trader's bi-annual Civil War Collector's Price Guide. A charter member and past president of Descendants of Civil War Veterans, Broadwater has also been a member of the Civil War Round Table of Baltimore, The Harry Gilmore Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Kennesaw Mountain Association. He actively speaks to historical societies and civic organizations on Civl War and Revolutionary War topics.

On October 1, 2009, Broadwater was inducted into the Blair County Arts Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of Literary Arts.

During the 150th Civil War anniversary, Broadwater participated with the Pennsylvania Humanities Commission to teach an interpretive class and to give a program on the underground railroad. He also wrote a monthly article for the four-year period that ran in the Altoona Mirror and Tyrone Herald. One of Broadwater's books "Gettysburg As The Generals Remembered It", was selected by the United Stated Army War College as reading for candidates taking the Gettysburg Staff Ride.

In 2014, Broadwater strayed from the field of military history to write the first of two baseball biographies. The 2014 offering deals with the life of famous Hall-of-Fame pitcher, Lefty Grove, and the second, released in 2016, is a biography of Hall-of-Fame Pirates slugger, Ralph Kiner.

At present, Broadwater is working on "Great Stands In American Military History," which chronicles heroic and determined stands made by America's citizen soldiers from the Revolution to Vietnam.