150 Years | Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial

A native Kansas "jayhawker," Stacy Allen is a 1983 graduate of the University of Kansas, earning a bachelor's degree in Anthropology. His public service career with the United States National Park Service began in 1984, as a Park Ranger duty stationed at Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. Duties at the Civil War battlefield included visitor and resource protection, interpretation, and resource management. In January 1989, Stacy accepted promotion to Lead Park Ranger at Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee, supervising the park's interpretation and visitor services program until January 1992, when he was promoted to Park Historian-a position he held for ten years. Since June 2002, Stacy has served as Chief Park Ranger at Shiloh. In this capacity, he manages the park's interpretation, visitor services, resource management, and law enforcement programs, and stewards all research, science, and preservation activities for the 4,400-acre Shiloh Battlefield Unit, the Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark, and the park's developing 950-acre Corinth Battlefield Unit in northeast Mississippi, which also includes part of the Davis Bridge Battlefield in Tennessee.

Stacy has been involved in all phases of planning, compliance, and construction for several multi-million dollar agency projects, such as the award-winning Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, multi-phased road construction on Shiloh battlefield, the multi-year archaeological investigation of Shiloh Indian Mounds NHL, with construction of the Indian Mounds interpretive shelter and trail, and the recently completed streambank erosion control work along Shiloh's Tennessee River shoreline. Stacy has also co-written and served as historical consultant on four National Park Service films, including the movie to be premiered this April: Shiloh - Fiery Trial.

Widely published, Stacy has authored or been a contributor to numerous books, scholarly articles, agency guides, booklets, site bulletins, and book reviews for journals and magazines. In addition, he has authored, and/or contributed to, dozens of planning documents and research studies for the National Park Service and other preservation associations-including the landmark congressional Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields (1993), The Vicksburg Campaign Trail Battlefields Preservation Report (2004) and the Siege and Battle of Corinth Special Resource Study (2004), and Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields: State of the Park's Report, National Park Conservation Association (2010). Stacy routinely serves as historical advisor for the American Battlefield Protection Program and the Mississippi Civil War Battlefield Commission; regularly provides technical/consultant assistance to the Tennessee Wars Commission, Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association, and the Civil War Trust; and currently serves as President of the Association of National Park Rangers.

Married to Diane Woodford, of Savannah, Tennessee, they have two married children, Jennifer and Jonathan, and five grandchildren.

 

Books, Articles, Scripts, and other publications (author or contributor)

-Shiloh - Fiery Trial "Film Script," National Park Service & Great Divide Pictures, 2012

-Shiloh! A Visitor's Guide - Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition, Blue & Gray Enterprises, 2011

-"State of the Association" Ranger Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1, Winter 2011-2012

-Live the Adventure: Join the National Park Service: A Guide to Becoming a Park Ranger with the

National Park Service. Association of National Park Rangers, 2011

-"Is ANPR relevant to matters at hand?" Ranger Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 2011

-Shiloh National Military Park, National Park Service, Official Unigrid Brochure, 2010

-"Shiloh National Military Park" Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, Francis P. McManamon,

ed., 4 vols., Greenwood Publishing, 2009

-"The Continued Absence of the Generalist Ranger" Ranger Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer 2008

-Crossroads "Film Script" National Park Service & Signature Films, Inc., 2012

-Corinth: Crossroads of the Western Confederacy-A Visitor's Guide. Blue & Gray Enterprises, 2007

-"Shiloh: The Consequence of Losing Armageddon." Hallowed Ground, Washington, DC, Spring 2006

-"Corinth: Decision at the Crossroads." Hallowed Ground, Washington, DC, Spring 2006

-On the Skirmish Line - Behind a Friendly Tree: The Civil War Memoirs of William Royal Oake, 26^th

Iowa Volunteers. Farcountry Press, Helena, Montana, 2006

-The Battle of Shiloh "Film Script" National Park Service & Hillman and Carr, Inc., 2004

-Decision at the Crossroads "Film Script" National Park Service & Hillman and Carr, Inc., 2004

-Corinth: Crossroads of the Western Confederacy. Blue & Gray Magazine, Columbus, Ohio, 2002

-"If He Had Less Rank: Lewis Wallace" in Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg. Steven

Woodworth, ed.,University of Kansas, 2001

-"Foreword" Shiloh: Bloody April. Wiley Sword, Morningside Press (25^th Anniversary Edition), 2001

-Shiloh! A Visitor's Guide. Blue & Gray Enterprises, Columbus, Ohio, 2001

-"The Battle of Shiloh." Audio script for Eastern National Cassette/CD battlefield tour, 2000

-"A Guide to the Corinth Campaigns of 1862" Siege & Battle Commission, Corinth, Mississippi, 1998

-The Battle of Shiloh, National Park Service Civil War Series. Eastern National, Pennsylvania, 1998

- "Shiloh: 6-7 April 1862." The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Frances Kennedy, Ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1998

-Shiloh! The Second Day's Battle and Aftermath. Blue & Gray Magazine, Columbus, Ohio, 1997

-Shiloh! Campaign and First Day of Battle. Blue & Gray Magazine, Columbus, Ohio, 1997

-"A Thousand Mile Front: Civil War in the Lower Mississippi Valley" National Park Service, LMDI, 1997

-Guide to the 135^th Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Shiloh. Hatcher Comm., Tennessee, 1997

-"Tracking Down the Past..." w/ Milton Bagby, Civil War Times Illustrated, 1997

-"Shiloh Battlefield, Tennessee, 1862" (Civil War Map) McElfresh Map Co., Olean, New York, 1997

-Shiloh: Voices of the Civil War. Editors of Time-Life Books, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, 1996

- "Shiloh National Military Park." Civil War Map Series. Trailhead Graphics, Aurora, CO, 1994, 2004, 2010.

-The Atlas of the Civil War. James M. McPherson, ed., MacMillen, New York, 1994

-"Evolution of a Nation: The Consequences of the American Civil War" NPS Site Bulletin, 1991

-"Tejano Soldados for the Union and Confederacy..." NPS Site Bulletin, 1991

-"The Slave Becomes a Man: The United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War" NPS Site

Bulletin and The Savannah Courier, 1991

-"Surrender Interview Monument Dedicated In August." Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1990

-"Looting a Moment in Time." Archaeological Resources Protection Act Training Manual, Federal Law

Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, GA; and the Grady County, Oklahoma, Historical Quarterly, 1990

-"The Contributions of Women in the Civil War" NPS Site Bulletin, 1990

-"Ulysses S. Grant Traveled Long, Hard Road to Success" Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1988

-"Torpedo, Ironclad Made History on Yazoo River" Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1988

-"Thomas O. Selfridge...Faced Death Many Times." Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1988

-"Original Surrender Interview Monument..." Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1988

-"General Sherman Called Both Genius and Barbarian." Vicksburg Evening Post-Special Edition, 1988

 

Published Book Reviews

The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers. Civil War Book Review, 2006

Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861. Civil War Book Review, 2005

Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant. Civil War Book Review, 2005

Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865. Civil War Book Review, 2004

Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign. Civil War History, 2003

A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas. Civil War Book Review, 2002

All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862. Gulf South Historical Review, 2002

Training, Tactics, and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Civil War History, 2001

Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer... Civil War Book Review, 2001

General Wesley Merritt: Brandy Station to Manila Bay. Civil War Book Review, 2001

Coburn's Brigade...in the Western Civil War. Civil War Book Review, 2000

Jottings from Dixie: The Civil War Dispatches of Sgt. Maj. Stephen F. Fleharty. Civil War History, 2000

Andersonville. Civil War Regiments Journal, 1999

The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence. Blue & Gray Magazine, 1998

John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. The Gulf Coast Historical Review, 1997

The Army War College Guide to the Battle of Shiloh. Civil War History, 1997

Sinking of the U.S.S Cairo. Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter, 1994

The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership The Alabama Review 1993

Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee. The Alabama Review, 1993

General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel. Civil War Book Exchange Newsletter, 1988

History of the 13^th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Civil War Book Exchange Newsletter 1988

From Corsicana To Appomattox... Civil War Book Exchange Newsletter.1988

The Confederate Guns of Navarro County. Civil War Book Exchange Newsletter 1988