Jay Jorgensen

Jay Jorgensen has written several books about the Battle of Gettysburg. His Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield received the 2002 Bachelder-Coddington Award for the best new book on Gettysburg that year. A companion book, The Wheatfield at Gettysburg: A Walking Tour, is a popular book for visitors to the battlefield. Jay has also published Gettysburg’s Leadership Lessons for Lawyers (and Non-Lawyers too!) and Edward Porter Alexander, Confederate Cannoneer. He is the editor and co-author of Top Ten at Gettysburg, which was released in March 2017. Jay received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and his Masters of Arts degree in Military History, with honors in Civil War Studies, from American Military University. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Villanova University School of Law.