Walter Bellingrath Edgar

Born December 10, 1943, in Mobile, AL; son of Charles Ernest, Jr. (in business) and Amelia (Moore) Edgar; married Elizabeth Giles (a schoolteacher), August 6, 1966; children: Elizabeth Rean, Amelia Edgar Slawsby. Education: Davidson College, A.B., 1965; University of South Carolina at Columbia, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1969. Politics: Independent. Religion: Episcopalian. Avocational Interests: Gardening, reading, squash. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Army Reserve, 1965-95, including a period of active duty; became colonel; received Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. Memberships: South Caroliniana Society (member of board of trustees, 1979-84; president, 1984-87), South Carolina Historical Association (member of board of trustees, 1979-82 and 1983-84; president, 1982-83; member of board of managers, 2000--), Historical Society. Addresses: Home: Columbia, SC. Office: Department of History, University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia, SC 29208. E-mail: edgar@gwm.sc.edu.

South Carolina General Assembly, Columbia, historical editor, 1972-74; University of South Carolina at Columbia, began as assistant professor, became professor of history, 1974--, Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies, 1995, director of Institute for Southern Studies, 1980--. Middlebury College, visiting professor, 1986. South Carolina Governor's Mansion Foundation, member of board of trustees, 1979-87; Friends of Richland County Public Library, member of board of trustees, 1979-80, president, 1981-83; Columbia Museum of Art, member of board of trustees, 1987; Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, member of board of trustees, 1990-93; South Carolina Hall of Fame, member of board of trustees, 1996--.

Fellow, National Historical Publications Commission, 1971-72; named George Washington Distinguished Professor, Society of the Cincinnati, 1999; LL.D., Coker College.

WRITINGS:

• (Editor) The Letterbook of Robert Pringle, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1972.
• (Editor) A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1984.
• (Editor) South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1986.
• South Carolina in the Modern Age, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1992.
• (Editor with Tony Badger and Jan Gretlund, Lothar Honighausen, and Christoph Irmscher) Southern Landscapes, Stauffenberg Verlag, 1996.
• South Carolina: A History, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1998.
• America's First Civil War: The Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, Morrow (New York, NY), 2001.
• Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution, Morrow (New York, NY), 2001.
• (Editor) The South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2006.