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Joseph Bilby, Historian, Monmouth Country Park Civil War

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Joseph G. Bilby
Historian and Writer
Well Township, New Jersey

Joseph Bilby, who has taught military history at Ocean County College in New Jersey, is the author of over 100 articles on military and New Jersey history, including Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey Infantry from Flemington to Appomattox. He is also a contributing editor for Military Images Magazine, a columnist for the Civil War News, a member of the Friends of Monmouth Battlefield and the North-South Skirmish Association and a lecturer on the topic of African-American Civil War soldiers. He has B. A. and M. A. degrees in history from Seton Hall University. He also served as a lieutenant with the First Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967.