WATFORD, Christopher M. 1978-

PERSONAL:

Born October 2, 1978, in Thomasville, NC; son of Jeffery (a sanitation worker) and Lisa (Gibson) Watford. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Appalachian State University, B.A., 2000; attended University of North Carolina—Greensboro, 2003. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Methodist.

ADDRESSES:

Home—4495 Denton Rd., Thomasville, NC 27360. Office—Davidson County Community College, P.O. Box 1287, Lexington, NC 27293-1287. E-mail—cmwatford@hotmail.com.

CAREER:

Davidson County Schools, Lexington NC, teacher of at-risk students, 2000—. Also affiliated with Davidson County Community College.

MEMBER:

North Carolina Society of Archivists, Civil War Roundtable of North Carolina, Davidson County Writers Guild.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Commendation, Davidson County Civil War Roundtable, 2001, for The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, NC: Biographies of 1996 Men before, during, and after the Conflict.

WRITINGS:

The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, NC: Biographies of 1996 Men before, during, and after the Conflict, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2001.

(Editor) The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865: The Piedmont, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2003.

(Editor) The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1965: The Mountains, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Editing The Life and Letters of William G. Morris, the biography of a North Carolina carpenter, Confederate colonel, and state legislator, including more than one hundred letters from the Civil War period; editing The Charles C. Blacknall Papers, a collection of letters and diaries related to the Twenty-third North Carolina Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry; research on the life of Wilbur J. Cash, author of Mind of the South; research on the role of Scales's North Carolina Brigade at the Civil War battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; research on the military band members of World War I.