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Author and historian Gary Schreckengost teaches American history at Lampeter-Strasburg School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A retired Army infantry major in the Army Reserve and a Bosnia and Iraq War veteran, he is a the author of:
-The 1st Louisiana Special Battalion: Wheat's Tigers in the Civil War
-Try Me: I Was One of Wheat's Famed Louisiana Tigers
-A Firm Determination to Do or Die: The Defense and Fall of the Peach Orchard Salient at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
-Before Bull Run: The Army of Pennsylvania and Its Forgotten Campaign of 1861
-Always Move Forward! The 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th U.S. Division in World War I
-Willing and Able! The 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th U.S. Infantry Division in World War II
-I Was a Hessian Grenadier at the Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776.
Works in the stew pot:
-I Was a Hessian Jaeger in the American Revolution, Volume 1: 1776-77
-I Was a Hessian Jaeger in the American Revolution, Volume 2: 1778-82
-I Was a Pennsylvania Rifleman at the Battles of Trenton-Princeton, the Campaign that Saved America
-I Fired One of the First Shots Heard 'Round the World: The Fight at Concord Bridge and Along Battle Road, 1775
-I Fought with Artemus Ward on Bunker Hill, 1775
-From Boston to Red Bank: I Fought with General Washington's Continentals Until I Got Wounded, 1775-77
-I Fought with Benedict Arnold at Quebec, 1775
-I Fought with Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, 1777
-Howe's Last Chance for Victory: The Philadelphia Campaign of 1777
-Bloody Streets: The Boston Massacre and its Trial by Reason
-"I Serve": With the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the American Revolution (Volume 1: 1775-77)
-"I Serve": With the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the American Revolution (Volume 2: 1778-82)
-I Fought (and Almost Died) with General Gates at the Battle of Camden, 1780
-I Fought with Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781
-I Fought with Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781
-Macht's Nichts! I Fought with the German Continental Regiment, 1776-79
-In the Eye of the Storm: I Fought with the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (1st Pennsylvania Irish) at the Bloody Angle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863
-I Fought (and Almost Died) with Custer at the Little Big Horn, 1876
-Draw Sabers and Charge! I Fought with the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment at the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, 1863
-A Contest of Contrasts: The Artillery Fight at the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1863
-Fatal Blunder of the Day: The Artillery Fight at the Battle of Bull Run, July 1861
-Today This War Ends: I Charged with Pickett at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
-Forgotten Valor: I Fought with the 137th New York Infantry Regiment on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863
-One of the Wolverines: I Fought with General Custer at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
-Into the Wilderness: I Fought with the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment in the mountains of western Virginia, 1862-64
-I Was One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: With the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion in the Shenandoah Valley, 1862
-Tigers, Take that Hill! The Attack on East Cemetery Hill by the Famed 1st Louisiana Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
-Fire Zouaves! I Fought with the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 1861-64
-Siegfried, First King of the Germans
-The Not So Peaceable Kingdom: The Fatal Attraction of the Lenape, Susquehannock, Dutch, Swedish, and English Peoples in the Delaware River Valley, 1600-99
-A Voluntary Association of the People: Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Militia Establishment 1747-56
-I Was a Hessian Fusilier at the Battle of Hastenbeck, 1757
-I Was a Prussian Musketman at the Battle of Kolin, 1757
-I Was a Prussian Cavalryman at the Battle of Rossbach, 1757
-I Was a Prussian Grenadier Guard at the Battle of Leuthen, 1757
-I Was a Prussian Fusilier at the Battle of Zorndorf, 1758
-With Roses in Our Hats: I Fought with the Hampshire Fusiliers at the Battle of Minden, 1759
-To the Halls of Montezuma: I Fought with the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment in the War with Mexico, 1846-47
-The Great Compromise: Federalists, Confederates, and the debate over the U.S. Constitution of 1789
-King or Country? Congress' Great Debate to Secede from the British Empire, 1776
-Lincoln and Liberty: The Election of 1860
-Hurrah for Texas! The Great Debate to Annex Mexico's Breakaway Province, 1845
-Bully Boys! Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Charge up San Juan Hill, 1898
-Into the Jaws of Death: I Was a Soldier in the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, in World War I
-Sturmwind Dahin! German Panzer Forces in World War II (Volume 1: With Panzer Regiment 1, Beginnings to the Fall of France, 1935-40)
-Sturmwind Dahin! German Panzer Forces in World War II (Volume 2: With Panzer Regiment 1, The Balkans to Barbarossa, 1941)
-Sturmwind Dahin! German Panzer Forces in World War II (Volume 3: With Rommel's Panzer Armee Afrika, 1941)
-I Was a German Paratrooper in the Battle of Crete, 1940
-I Was German Mountain Soldier in the Battle for Norway, 1940
-The Greatest Raid: I Was a German Paratrooper in the Attack on Fort Eben Emael, Belgium, 1940
-To the Gates of Hell: I Was a Storm Trooper with Kampfgruppe Infantry Regiment 191, 71st German Infantry Division, at the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43
-The Devil's Caldron: I Was a Tanker with Kampfgruppe SS Panzer Regiment 1, 1st SS Panzer Divison (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) at the Battle of Kursk, 1943
-Overlord! I Was a Soldier in the 116th U.S. Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 29th U.S. Infantry Division, from Omaha Beach to St. Lo, June 6-August 6, 1944.
-Invasion! I Was a Soldier with the 352nd German Fortress Division on Omaha Beach and Beyond, June 6-August 6, 1944.
-Hell in the Hedgerows (Volume 1): I Was a Soldier with Kampfgruppe Grenadier Regiment 1057, 91st German Infantry Division (1st Air Landing Division), in Normandy, France, June 6-August 1, 1944
-Hell in the Hedgerows (Volume 2): I Was a Soldier in Kampfgruppe SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 25, 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend), in Normandy, France, June 6-August 6, 1944
-Break Out from Normandy: I Was a Tanker with Task Force 8th Tank Battalion, 4th U.S. Armored Division (Roosevelt's Butchers), from Avranches to Argentan, France, August, 1944
-Roosevelt's Storm Troops (Volume 1): I Was a Soldier with the 119th U.S. Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 30th U.S. Infantry Division in Normandy, France, June-August, 1944.
-Roosevelt's Storm Troops (Volume 2): I Was a Soldier with the 119th U.S. Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 30th U.S. Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge, December 20-24, 1944.
-Eisen Faust: I Was a Soldier in Kampfgruppe SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 37, 17th SS Panzer Division (Goetz von Berlichen), in Normandy, France, June 6-August 6, 1944
-Hitler's Last Chance for Victory (Volume 1): I Was a Tanker with Kampfgruppe SS Panzer Regiment 1, 1st SS Panzer Division (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler), at the Battle of the Bulge, December 16-24, 1944.
-Hitler's Last Chance for Victory (Volume 2): I Was a Soldier with Kampfgruppe SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 26, 12th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment (Hitler Jugend), at the Battle of the Bulge, December 16-30, 1944.
-Hitler's Last Chance for Victory (Volume 3): I Was a Tanker with Kampfgruppe Panzer Regiment 3,Panzer Division 2, at the Battle of the Bulge, December 16-30, 1944
-Stopped Them Cold: I Was a Soldier with the 393rd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 99th U.S. Infantry Division, at the Battle of the Bulge, December 16-30, 1944.
-Buying Time in the Ardennes: I Was a Soldier with the 110th U.S. Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, at the Battle of the Bulge, December 16-19, 1944.
-The Battling Bastards of Bastogne: I Was a Soldier with the 2nd U.S. Tank Battalion, 9th Armored Division at Battle of the Bulge, December 19-30, 1944.
-Bloody Bucket: I Was a Soldier with the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 28th U.S. Infantry Division, at the Battle of Huertgen Forest, November, 1944.
-Road Warrior: I Was a Tanker with Task Force 1st Battalion, 66th U.S. Armored Regiment in France, Belgium, and Germany in World War 2, 1944-45
-Dust Off! I Was an Army Heliborne Medic in Vietnam, 1969-70
-Ghost Across the Landscape: I Was an Iraqi Army Advisor in Fallujah, 2005-06
My other works have been published in American Civil War Magazine, World War II Magazine, Field Artillery Journal and Armor Magazine.
