Robert E.L. Krick

Robert E.L. “Bobby” Krick has lived or worked on Civil War battlefields almost continuously since 1972. He grew up on the Chancellorsville Battlefield near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and graduated from Mary Washington College with a degree in history.

Krick has worked in various historical capacities at several battlefields, including Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana and Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. He joined the staff of Richmond National Battlefield Park as a historian in 1991.

Widely published on Civil War topics, Krick began his career as an author with The Fortieth Virginia Infantry, a regimental history. In 2003, the University of North Carolina Press published his Staff Officers in Gray, a biographical register of the Army of Northern Virginia's staff officers.