Biography

Bruce Allardice is considered, in the words of historian Ed Cotham, "one of the finest researchers in the field."

Bruce S. Allardice is immediate past president of the Northern Illinois Civil War Round Table, and past president of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. A lifelong Chicago area resident and long-suffering White Sox fan, Mr. Allardice teaches history at South Suburban College. He has authored or coauthored five books, and numerous articles, on the Civil War, including Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables (Hill College, 2002). His More Generals in Gray (LSU Press 1995) was a selection of the History Book Club. He had two books come out in 2008: Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register (U of MO Press), a biographical register of Confederate army colonels, and Kentuckians in Gray (U Press of KY), co-authored with Professor Larry Hewitt. He has 2 current projects, on the Battle of Ezra Church, and editing the diary of a Confederate riverboatman.

Mr. Allardice has presented numerous lectures and presentations on the Civil War and genealogy for Civil War Round Tables, museums, and civic organizations. He is the recipient of the CWRT of Chicago's prestigious Nevins-Freeman Award for distinguished service in Civil War Scholarship and the CWRT movement. An avid sports historian, Mr. Allardice currently heads up the "Civil War Baseball" subcommittee for the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and is a member of SABR's Biography Committee, specializing in researching the lives of 19th Century ballplayers.