Roland, Charles Pierce, 1918- (Personal Name)

His Louisiana sugar plantations during the American Civil War, 1957.

Reflections on Lee, 2017: title page (Charles P. Roland) back cover (Dr. Charles P. Roland is emeritus professor of history at the University of Kentucky; a former president of the Southern Historical Association, Dr. Roland lives in Lexington, Kentucky)

wikipedia.org, July 18, 2019 (Charles P. Roland; Charles Pierce Roland (born April 8, 1918) is an American historian and professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky whose research specialty is in the fields of the American South and the Civil War; he turned 100 in April 2018; Roland was born in rural Maury City in Crockett County in West Tennessee; he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1938; from 1940 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947, he was an historian for the National Park Service within the United States Department of Interior in Washington, D.C.; he joined the United States Army as a captain in the infantry in the European Theatre of World War II; he fought in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge; he earned a Ph. D. in history in 1951 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; he returned to the military during the Korean War as the assistant to the chief historian of the Army; he taught from 1952 to 1970 at Tulane University in New Orleans and from 1970 to 1988 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky)

Information from 678 converted July 18, 2019 (M.A. and Ph. D. from Louisiana State Univ. in 1948 and 1951)