Larry Gordon

Colonel (Ret.) Charles "Larry" Gordon is the author of The Last Confederate General, John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry. He has been a student of the American Civil War all his life and has worked as a volunteer interpretive guide at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Northern Virginia since 1996. Following his retirement from the U.S. Army, he became a senior analyst at a not-for-profit organization that works for the Department of Defense in the Washington, DC area.

Larry Gordon is originally from Texas, where he graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in science. He is also a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served on active duty for 26 years in the fields of tactical and strategic communications and foreign intelligence, with tours of duty in Italy, Korea, Panama, Hawaii, and all over the mainland United States. Colonel Gordon is a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he commanded a Signal battalion. Along the way, he studied several Slavic languages and earned a master's degree in Soviet Area Studies from the University of Kansas. He and his wife Julia reside in Fairfax Station, Virginia.