Zachery Fry
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University
Advisor:
Dr. Mark Grimsley
Academic Interests:
American Civil War
Nineteenth Century Military History
Early American History
Nineteenth Century Military History
Early American History
Dissertation:
Democrats and the Political Culture of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
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Bio Note:
Zack Fry graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University in 2010. He was also a 2009 participant in The Gettysburg Semester at Gettysburg College, where he researched staff officer performance during that campaign. His senior undergraduate honors thesis was a comprehensive examination of a Union regiment from New York and Ohio that connected battlefield with home front, and the project garnered University Honors. Concentrating on the history of the Army of the Potomac, he has written for press titles such as The Gettysburg Magazine and regularly leads Civil War battlefield tours. His proposed dissertation topic deals with the political culture of the Union Second Corps, which included prominent Democrats in high positions and junior officer posts. The project investigates the intersection between a politicized organizational structure imposed by officers and the sustaining motivations of Second Corps enlisted men. Zack is also researching the legacy of Democratic influences among Second Corps veterans through the election of 1880, when former commander Winfield Scott Hancock narrowly lost the presidency.
Added January 2012
