Andrew S. Ward (born 1946) is an American writer of historical nonfiction. He is a former contributing editor to ''

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Works

* ''Fits and Starts: The Premature Memoirs of Andrew Ward'', Little-Brown (1978), * ''The Blood Seed'', McGraw-Hill (1987), * ''Out Here: A Newcomer's Notes from the Great Northwest'', Penguin (1992), * ''Our Bones are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857'', Henry Holt and Co. (1996), * ''Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers'', Amistad (2001), * ''River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War'', Penguin (2006), * ''The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves'', Houghton Mifflin (2008),

References

Living people 1946 births American reporters and correspondents 21st-century American historians Historians from Washington (state) Oberlin College alumni 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American historians Writers from Seattle {{Washington-writer-stub