Gary D. Joiner Gary Joiner is a member of the faculty of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He also serves as director of the Red River Regional Studies Center at the university. In addition to his academic duties, he is owner of a professional cartography firm that provides governmental mapping and historical consultation to governmental agencies. His community service activities have included the local board of directors of the U.S. Civil War Center at LSU in Baton Rouge and the presidency of the Civil War Roundtable of North Louisiana. He has edited the journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association and has served as president of the DeSoto Parish Historical Society. Joiner has provided maps for numerous scholarly publications and has developed geographic information systems (GIS) for civil war projects, including the mapping of Vicksburg National Military Park and mapping projects for the Civil War Preservation Trust. He is a regional expert on historical and archaeological matters and has served as a consultant for regional television projects covering the history of the Red River and the Red River campaign. He has also appeared as a panelist/expert on MSNBC. Joiner is a popular speaker on military history issues for Civil War forums and study groups. He and his wife are founders of the Friends of the Mansfield Battlefield, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preservation of battle sites of the Red River Campaign.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
The Red River Campaign
Union and Confederate Leadership and the War in Louisiana. Edited by Theodore P. Savas, David A. Woodbury and Gary D. Joiner
Parabellum Press
Paperback, January 2003
One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End
The Red River Campaign of 1864
The American Crisis Series
Scholarly Resources
Paperback, Hardcover, December 2002
Historic Shreveport-Bossier: An Illustrated History of Shreveport and Bossier City
Gary D. Joiner, Marguerite R. Plummer
Lammert Publications, Inc.
Hardcover, September 2000
Gary Joiner is a member of the faculty of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He also serves as director of the Red River Regional Studies Center at the university. In addition to his academic duties, he is owner of a professional cartography firm that provides governmental mapping and historical consultation to governmental agencies. His community service activities have included the local board of directors of the U.S. Civil War Center at LSU in Baton Rouge and the presidency of the Civil War Roundtable of North Louisiana. He has edited the journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association and has served as president of the DeSoto Parish Historical Society. Joiner has provided maps for numerous scholarly publications and has developed geographic information systems (GIS) for civil war projects, including the mapping of Vicksburg National Military Park and mapping projects for the Civil War Preservation Trust. He is a regional expert on historical and archaeological matters and has served as a consultant for regional television projects covering the history of the Red River and the Red River campaign. He has also appeared as a panelist/expert on MSNBC. Joiner is a popular speaker on military history issues for Civil War forums and study groups. He and his wife are founders of the Friends of the Mansfield Battlefield, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preservation of battle sites of the Red River Campaign.