Waugh, John C.

John Clinton Waugh (born October 12, 1929) is an American journalist and historian. Waugh began professional writing as a journalist, then turned to media work for national politicians, and began authoring books about history in 1989. He is best known for his first book, The Class of 1846 — From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and their Brothers, which won the New York Civil War Round Table’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award for the best non-fiction book of 1994 and was a best-seller. He is author of four books on Abraham Lincoln and eight other histories on topics relating to the American Civil War. Waugh lives in Pantego, Texas.