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'''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]].
'''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]].
==Background==
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/>
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/>
==Studies of the American Civil War==
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/>
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/>