Zachery Fry

Military History Professor | PhD @OhioState | Author, _A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac_ | Views mine alone

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Happy to announce that the paperback edition of my book from @UNC_Press will hit bookshelves this August!

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

This is so important to me

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

What we real need is a Coen Brothers dark comedy biopic of Stonewall Jackson.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Even crazier that we don’t have 30 movies about the Civil War. Of course I know why we don’t, but it’s still ridiculous. You could make a movie just about Antietam or Chancellorsville or Shiloh. You could make a Band of Brothers style thing following the course of the whole war and it would be phenomenal. In a just world Stonewall Jackson would have his own prestige awards bait biopic. But that will never happen in a million years.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Couldn’t agree more. A brilliant book tackling some of the ugliest realities of the War of the Rebellion.

[EJ @e_joseph_murphy]

This should be on everyone’s Memorial Day reading list.

[Patrick J. Wolf @PatrickJWolf]

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Friday.

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

Yes, Ted Turner had his flaws, but he also gave us these two performances and for that I am forever grateful.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Thanks, Ted Turner (1938 – 2026), for giving us 'Gettysburg' (1993).

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Planning for the next staff ride. No better classroom in the world!

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@KKriegeBlog “Hold them!”

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@HopeSeck Need this in my life, too.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Napoleon comforting the mortally wounded Marshal Jean Lannes after Aspern-Essling in May 1809. Painting by Paul-Émile Boutigny, 1894.

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

What’s your favourite painting of Napoleon?

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Well said.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This is a horrible idea/initiative IMO. COVID taught us this. Learning sciences. But more importantly centuries of military service that there are cohesive & career bonding properties of physical shared experiences. https://t.co/sbKEqbSvSH

Soldiers/officers that bonded in schools are later at key locations together in war. A school is a shared experience for those that do it together and with any that attended the same experience.

For the U.S. Army, from the American-Mexican war until now...leaders that know each other personally from a shared experience or that have a shared memory of a place/experience.

Trying to save money by cutting presence at CGSC, Captains Course, really any institutional school and foundational shared experience is a bad idea with down stream impacts on performance.

The military is not a civilian institution. We have drastically different goals.

This is the thesis of my book Connected Soldiers. A belief of improving a soldier's individual experiences at the cost of cohesion and combat effectiveness.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@medievalist1 Submitting lesson plans like this from now on.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@medievalist1 Needs more ACW.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@RichardPCondon This has Onion’s “Area Man” vibes all over it.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@e_joseph_murphy We had the same ones at Fort Belvoir as well.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

A pastiche of Édouard Detaille!

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

One final (informal) CGSC Fort Belvoir staff ride—studying the impact of sustained combat operations on the armies of 1864 at Spotsylvania.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

Grateful for the opportunity to have presented at another Civil War Institute Summer Conference at Gettysburg College. Some truly great friends in attendance.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@sarahkaybierle @SavasBeatie Congratulations, Sarah!

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

@tomricks1 Thank you for that, sir. I loved every minute of the job and hope I left my small corner of PME better.

[Zachery Fry @WarHistoryProf]

This is the post I never wanted to have to make.

Earlier today, news arrived that my position as a history professor for US Army CGSC has been eliminated in accordance with DOD cuts. There is no chance of reassignment, and the entire Fort Belvoir campus will be stood down.