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May 27, 1889 Died on 01 Jan 1980 (aged 90)
American historian and businessman
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About Stanley Horn
- Stanley Fitzgerald Horn (May 27, 1889-1980) was a historian, businessman, and editor.
- He was born at Neely's Bend in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA, on a farm that had been in his family since the eighteenth century.
- 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.
- He won the Building Journalism Award from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
