Stanley Fitzgerald Horn (May 27, 1889-1980) was a historian, businessman, and editor. He was born at

Neely's Bend Neely's Bend is a major bend in the Cumberland River just northeast of Nashville, Tennessee and south of the Nashville suburb of Madison, Tennessee, Madison. This area contains several hundred acres and is some of the most rural land remaining in D ...

in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA, on a farm that had been in his family since the eighteenth century.Harris D. Riley Jr.
"Stanley F. Horn "
in ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History'' After graduating from high school, he started working for the Cumberland Telephone Company. In 1908, he began working for the ''Southern Lumberman'', a trade paper on the lumber business. Horn became interested in state and Civil War history. A lifelong admiration for Robert E. Lee resulted in Horn's first book in 1935, entitled ''Boys' Life of Robert E. Lee''. In 1938, his book ''The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory'' was published. In the following year, ''Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan (1866-1871)'' was finished. In 1941, he wrote ''The Army of Tennessee: A Military History''. In 1949, he completed ''The Robert E. Lee Reader''. In the mid-1950s, he wrote ''The Decisive Battle of Nashville''. In all, Horn authored and published nine books pertaining to the

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

. He won the Building Journalism Award from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Horn, Stanley 1980 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American businesspeople American editors 1889 births American male non-fiction writers