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{{Infobox person
| name=Gilbert Riley Tredway
(Historian at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)
| birth_date=October 11, 1922
| birth_place=Dubois County, [[Indiana]]<br>
Resident of French Lick, Indiana
| death_date=January 14, 2019 (aged 96)<br>
'''Resting place''': <br>
Cuzco Cemetery, Dubois County, Indiana
|spouse=Mary Antonnette Canzoneri Tredway (died 1978)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Sarah Pearl Tredway Bault-Stomps (deceased)<br>
George Rodney Tredway<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
George R. and Pearl C. Tredway
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Indiana University]]
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Gilbert Riley Tredway''' (born October 11, 1922 – January 14, 2019)<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75516581/gilbert-riley-tredway|title=Gilbert Riley Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> was a [[historian]] from [[Indiana]] and [[Kentucky]], who has authored two books relating to the [[American Civil War]].
==Early years, military, education==
Tredway was born in Dubois County in southern Indiana to George Riley Tredway (1883–1958) and Pearl C. Tredway (1886–1979)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71162247/pearl-c_-tredway|title=Pearl C. Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> and reared there in Cuzco. He served in the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]],<ref name=tredway/> having been stationed first in the [[Panama Canal Zone]] and [[Ecuador]]<ref name=statement>Statement of Gilbert R. Tredway, Jasper, Indiana, March 1, 2011.</ref> before he volunteered for action in the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] theatre of World War II. An aircraft gunner on a B-17,<ref name=tredway/> Tredway was wounded while protecting a convoy in [[New Guinea]] and received the [[Purple Heart]]. After the war, he received all three of his degrees from [[Indiana University]] in Bloomington.. Thereafter he taught for a total of eight years at Mitchell (Indiana) High School in Lawrence County]], also in southern Indiana, and in [[Cincinnati]]], [[Ohio]].<ref name=statement/>
==American Civil War studies==
Tredway taught history and [[geography]] at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central Kentucky, when that institution was still known as Campbellsville College. His colleagues included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and William Edward Bennett]] in history and political science, respectively. He was on the faculty of Campbellsville College from 1959 to 1963, when he accepted a position at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Two years later in 1966, he returned to Campbellsville, where he remained until his retirement in the spring of 1984.<ref name=statement/>
His ''Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana,'' published in 1973,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/1/197.extract|title=Gilbert R. Tredway, Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana|publisher=[[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]: Indiana Historical Bureau|date= 1973|accessdate=March 2, 2011}}</ref> stems from his [[Ph.D.]] dissertation, which he completed eleven years earlier in 1962 from Indiana University. The work is a study of the northern [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], some of whom were [[Copperheads]] demanding a negotiated settlement of the war or an immediate ending of hostilities.<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/reference/cshm/ohrc039.html#10|title=Interviewee: Gilbert R. Tredway|publisher=dlib.indiana.edu|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref>
Tredway found that the judge advocate general in some of the cases against Democrats accused of undermining the war effort had "protected prosecution witnesses, browbeat defense witnesses, practiced brazen partisanship, and even accepted third-hand testimony."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CopQakAajYQC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Gilbert+R.+Tredway&source=bl&ots=cTp8ITFX48&sig=iLNKIapYmc3HhxDLwUinjKd6yqY&hl=en&ei=uhBtTaDzC8H2gAeTgPWVBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Gilbert%20R.%20Tredway&f=false|author=Michal R. Belknap|title=American Political Trials|publisher=Praeger Publishers|pages= 116|ISBN=0-313-28687-6|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref> Tredway's research reveals that the large majority of Indiana Democrats were not Copperheads, the best known of which was [[U.S. Representative]] [[Clement Vallandigham]] of Ohio, but were loyal to the Union and desired national restoration. A [[Princeton University]] thesis from 2005 finds that secession had been painful to most people in Indiana, whose agricultural economy depended heavily on southern commerce and on the [[Mississippi River]], at least before the rise of [[railroad]]s, as a way to bring commerce to market. "Formation of the Confederacy and the commencement of hostilities thus threatened both the livelihood and the identity of many in Indiana," writes Elisheva R. Coleman in her study entitled ''Call It Peace or Call It Treason''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/awards/2005-Coleman_Thesis.pdf|title=Elisheva R. Coleman, Call It Peace Or Call It Treason: The Milligan Case and the Meaning of Loyalty in the Civil War|publisher=Princeton, [[New Jersey]] (thesis)|date=2005|accessdate=March 2, 2011}}</ref> Tredway reveals too that Democratic congressional districts in Indiana often outperformed [[Republican Party|Republican]] strongholds in recruiting soldiers into the Union Army even though Republicans had claimed that northern Democrats were not pulling their weight in troop commitments for the war.<ref>Thomas E. Rodgers, University of Southern Indiana, "Republicans and Drifters: Political Affiliation and Union Army Volunteers in West-Central Indiana," ''Indiana Magazine of History'' Vol. XCII (December 1996), pp. 321-345.</ref>
In 1981, Tredway wrote a book review in the ''Indiana Magazine of History'' of a work similar to his own, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement'' by Hubert H. Wubben.<ref>Gilbert R. Tredway, Review of Hubert H. Wubben, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement'', ''Indiana Magazine of History'', Vol. 77, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 94-95.</ref>
In 1994, Tredway penned an [[historical novel]], ''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War'', the story of a [[Union Army|Union]] soldier promoted to officer from Dubois County.<ref name=Tredway>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4iIPQAACAAJ&dq=The+Way+It+Was:+A+Novel+of+the+Civil+War&hl=en&ei=zCFtTafMGMO78gap6pGNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA|title=''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War''|isbn=0-533-10733-4|publisher=Vantage Press|date=1994|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref>
==Tredway today==
Tredway and his wife, the former Mary Antonnette Canzoneri (1919–1978),<ref name=cemetery/> had a daughter, Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps, who died in 1999 as a result of an automobile accident<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192599640/sarah-pearl-bault_stomps|title=Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref>.
Their son is George Rodney Tredway (born ca. 1951) of Lewisport in Hancock County in northwestern Kentucky.<ref name=statement/> who was previously married to the former Janice Marie Slusser. Tredway had two brothers, W. C. Tredway (1911–1942), and Paul W. Tredway, who died in infancy in 1920.<ref name=cemetery/>
Tredway resided in Jasper in Dubois County. He was a [[Baptist]].<ref name=statement/> In 1995, Tredway was the subject of an oral interview at the Center for the Study of History and Memory at the Herman B. Wells Library at Indiana University.<ref name=tredway/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tredway, Gilbert R.}}
[[Category:Indiana]]
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Ohio]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
| name=Gilbert Riley Tredway
(Historian at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)
| birth_date=October 11, 1922
| birth_place=Dubois County, [[Indiana]]<br>
Resident of French Lick, Indiana
| death_date=January 14, 2019 (aged 96)<br>
'''Resting place''': <br>
Cuzco Cemetery, Dubois County, Indiana
|spouse=Mary Antonnette Canzoneri Tredway (died 1978)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Sarah Pearl Tredway Bault-Stomps (deceased)<br>
George Rodney Tredway<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
George R. and Pearl C. Tredway
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Indiana University]]
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Gilbert Riley Tredway''' (born October 11, 1922 – January 14, 2019)<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75516581/gilbert-riley-tredway|title=Gilbert Riley Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> was a [[historian]] from [[Indiana]] and [[Kentucky]], who has authored two books relating to the [[American Civil War]].
==Early years, military, education==
Tredway was born in Dubois County in southern Indiana to George Riley Tredway (1883–1958) and Pearl C. Tredway (1886–1979)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71162247/pearl-c_-tredway|title=Pearl C. Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> and reared there in Cuzco. He served in the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]],<ref name=tredway/> having been stationed first in the [[Panama Canal Zone]] and [[Ecuador]]<ref name=statement>Statement of Gilbert R. Tredway, Jasper, Indiana, March 1, 2011.</ref> before he volunteered for action in the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] theatre of World War II. An aircraft gunner on a B-17,<ref name=tredway/> Tredway was wounded while protecting a convoy in [[New Guinea]] and received the [[Purple Heart]]. After the war, he received all three of his degrees from [[Indiana University]] in Bloomington.. Thereafter he taught for a total of eight years at Mitchell (Indiana) High School in Lawrence County]], also in southern Indiana, and in [[Cincinnati]]], [[Ohio]].<ref name=statement/>
==American Civil War studies==
Tredway taught history and [[geography]] at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central Kentucky, when that institution was still known as Campbellsville College. His colleagues included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and William Edward Bennett]] in history and political science, respectively. He was on the faculty of Campbellsville College from 1959 to 1963, when he accepted a position at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Two years later in 1966, he returned to Campbellsville, where he remained until his retirement in the spring of 1984.<ref name=statement/>
His ''Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana,'' published in 1973,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/1/197.extract|title=Gilbert R. Tredway, Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana|publisher=[[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]: Indiana Historical Bureau|date= 1973|accessdate=March 2, 2011}}</ref> stems from his [[Ph.D.]] dissertation, which he completed eleven years earlier in 1962 from Indiana University. The work is a study of the northern [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], some of whom were [[Copperheads]] demanding a negotiated settlement of the war or an immediate ending of hostilities.<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/reference/cshm/ohrc039.html#10|title=Interviewee: Gilbert R. Tredway|publisher=dlib.indiana.edu|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref>
Tredway found that the judge advocate general in some of the cases against Democrats accused of undermining the war effort had "protected prosecution witnesses, browbeat defense witnesses, practiced brazen partisanship, and even accepted third-hand testimony."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CopQakAajYQC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Gilbert+R.+Tredway&source=bl&ots=cTp8ITFX48&sig=iLNKIapYmc3HhxDLwUinjKd6yqY&hl=en&ei=uhBtTaDzC8H2gAeTgPWVBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Gilbert%20R.%20Tredway&f=false|author=Michal R. Belknap|title=American Political Trials|publisher=Praeger Publishers|pages= 116|ISBN=0-313-28687-6|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref> Tredway's research reveals that the large majority of Indiana Democrats were not Copperheads, the best known of which was [[U.S. Representative]] [[Clement Vallandigham]] of Ohio, but were loyal to the Union and desired national restoration. A [[Princeton University]] thesis from 2005 finds that secession had been painful to most people in Indiana, whose agricultural economy depended heavily on southern commerce and on the [[Mississippi River]], at least before the rise of [[railroad]]s, as a way to bring commerce to market. "Formation of the Confederacy and the commencement of hostilities thus threatened both the livelihood and the identity of many in Indiana," writes Elisheva R. Coleman in her study entitled ''Call It Peace or Call It Treason''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/awards/2005-Coleman_Thesis.pdf|title=Elisheva R. Coleman, Call It Peace Or Call It Treason: The Milligan Case and the Meaning of Loyalty in the Civil War|publisher=Princeton, [[New Jersey]] (thesis)|date=2005|accessdate=March 2, 2011}}</ref> Tredway reveals too that Democratic congressional districts in Indiana often outperformed [[Republican Party|Republican]] strongholds in recruiting soldiers into the Union Army even though Republicans had claimed that northern Democrats were not pulling their weight in troop commitments for the war.<ref>Thomas E. Rodgers, University of Southern Indiana, "Republicans and Drifters: Political Affiliation and Union Army Volunteers in West-Central Indiana," ''Indiana Magazine of History'' Vol. XCII (December 1996), pp. 321-345.</ref>
In 1981, Tredway wrote a book review in the ''Indiana Magazine of History'' of a work similar to his own, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement'' by Hubert H. Wubben.<ref>Gilbert R. Tredway, Review of Hubert H. Wubben, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement'', ''Indiana Magazine of History'', Vol. 77, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 94-95.</ref>
In 1994, Tredway penned an [[historical novel]], ''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War'', the story of a [[Union Army|Union]] soldier promoted to officer from Dubois County.<ref name=Tredway>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4iIPQAACAAJ&dq=The+Way+It+Was:+A+Novel+of+the+Civil+War&hl=en&ei=zCFtTafMGMO78gap6pGNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA|title=''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War''|isbn=0-533-10733-4|publisher=Vantage Press|date=1994|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref>
==Tredway today==
Tredway and his wife, the former Mary Antonnette Canzoneri (1919–1978),<ref name=cemetery/> had a daughter, Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps, who died in 1999 as a result of an automobile accident<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192599640/sarah-pearl-bault_stomps|title=Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref>.
Their son is George Rodney Tredway (born ca. 1951) of Lewisport in Hancock County in northwestern Kentucky.<ref name=statement/> who was previously married to the former Janice Marie Slusser. Tredway had two brothers, W. C. Tredway (1911–1942), and Paul W. Tredway, who died in infancy in 1920.<ref name=cemetery/>
Tredway resided in Jasper in Dubois County. He was a [[Baptist]].<ref name=statement/> In 1995, Tredway was the subject of an oral interview at the Center for the Study of History and Memory at the Herman B. Wells Library at Indiana University.<ref name=tredway/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tredway, Gilbert R.}}
[[Category:Indiana]]
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Ohio]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]