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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]].

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==Background==

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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/>

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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]] Theater of Operations.

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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==

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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 E. 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/>

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Tredway taught history and [[geography]] at [[Southern 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 E. 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|author=Gilbert R. Tredway|title=Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana|publisher=[[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]: Indiana Historical Bureau|date=1973|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</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>

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