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Kraig W. McNutt
Bloghistorian [email protected] Director, The Center for the Study of the American Civil War
Originally from Louisville, McNutt is a resident of Franklin, Tennessee and
has been seriously researching and studying the American Civil War for
over 25 years. Since he prefers making his work accessible through digital
formats he suggests the title bloghistorianbest captures what he does. His
work can be found in numerous blogs, research papers, articles, lectures,
YouTube, photo essays, and the screenplay mostly accessible at
KraigMcNutt.com
His BattleofFranklin.net is arguably the largest single battle-focused blog on
the Internet. It receives tens of thousands of accesses a month. He started
the Battle of Franklin Facebook Group in October 2009 and it has over3,600 fans (as of July 2011).
Besides blogging, researching and writing, McNutt enjoys digital photography.
His podcast Grapevine Dispatches was the very first Civil War podcast launched in 2005. He can also frequently
be seen giving free battlefield tours around Franklin.
A frequent Civil War roundtable speaker/presenter, McNutt also enjoys using his platform to raise support for
historic preservation causes in Williamson County, and around the country. He is a direct descendant of a Union
soldier who fought at Franklin and Nashville. He is a member of the SUVCW Fort Donelson Camp #62.
McNutt holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in philosophy, communications, and Information Science from
Indiana University and the University of Kentucky. He taught for five years on the college level.
He founded and is the Director of The Center for the Study of the American Civil War which houses and archives his
extensive and growing collection of original Civil War soldiers letters, diaries, newspapers and other ephemera.
His blogs contain hundreds of original Civil War letter transcriptions that have been previously inaccessible.
Though not a professional historian by-choice, McNutt nonetheless brings a serious mind to the field, fueled by a
passion stoked by the advice one of his favorite authors James I. Robertson, Jr., - once challenged him with,
There is no history without emotion.
To contact him email him at [email protected]
McNutt has been mentored by long-time, respected and prolific historian-author Dr. Steven E. Woodworth,Professor at TCU.
Kraig McNutt brings with him not only years of study and understanding, but the necessary
passion to make the cold facts of history come alive. Driven by that passion, Kraig has honed his
studies into scholarship and his scholarship into understanding. As the Civil War slips further and
further into a dim past, we are fortunate to have Kraig breathing life back into the story.
Robert Hicks, best-selling author of The Widow of the South
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Web properties:
The Battle of Franklin (since 2006)
BattleofFranklin.net or BattleofFranklin.US
Franklin Matters FacebookGroupFranklinMatters.com (3,200+ fans)
Battle of Franklin Twitter
twitter.com/#!/BattleFranklin
Battle of Franklin Google Map
FranklinBattlefield.com
Battle of Franklin Descendants Database
franklindescendants.wordpress.com
The Civil War Gazette (since 1995)
CivilWarGazette.com
Tennessee in the Civil War Timeline
www.TennesseeintheCivilWar.com
YouTube Channel
YouTube.com/bloghistorian
Studies, research and monographs:
Tennessee in the Civil War Timeline
Civil War Medal of Honor Winners in Tennessee
Civil War Poetry, Song, and Amusements
The Unknown Franklin Soldier Reburial 2009
Indiana Regiments at Franklin
The Civil War Letters of A.L. Ewing, 63rd
Indiana
Williamson County Civil War Sites
A Guidebook to the Battle of Franklin
A Guidebook to McGavock Confederate Cemetery
Tennesseans in McGavock Confederate Cemetery
Other areas of research:
Regiments: the 58th
, 63rd
and 120th
Indiana
Infantries; the 6th
Kentucky Cav and the 26th
Kentucky Infantry.