Glenn Longacre

Glenn V. Longacre is a public historian with more than 35 years of experience. He has historically edited and published two books. The first is To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke (along with co-editor John Haas). The book, published by The University of Illinois Press, documents Opdycke's Civil War letters to his wife, Lucy, while he served with the 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later with the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, known as Opdycke's Tigers.

The second book is On the Plains in ’65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West, published by The Ohio University Press. George H. Holliday, an Appalachian Ohioan enlisted at 15 years-of-age, in a West Virginia cavalry regiment. After the war’s end, George and the 6th West Virginia, were transferred west to guard stage and mail stations along the famous Oregon Trail. Holliday’s memoirs are a rare account that documents the common Civil War volunteer soldier’s experiences during the 1865-1866, Indian Wars.

Glenn has published numerous articles and book reviews on a variety of topics. Over the course of his career, he has worked at archival institutions at the federal, regional, and state levels, including the National Archives and Records Administration at Chicago, the Ohio History Connection in Columbus, and the West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown. A West Virginia native, he holds a BA in history and a MA in public history from West Virginia University.