Major Works
- Confederate Women: Beyond the Petticoat (1975)
- The Road to Appomattox (1956)
- The Life of Billy Yank (1952)
- Life of Johnny Reb (1943)
- The Plain People of the Confederacy (1943)
- Southern Negroes (1938)
- Cotton and Slavery in the History of West Tennessee (1929)
Biography of Bell I. Wiley
Bell Wiley was born in Halls, Tennessee, in 1906. He attended Asbury College in Kentucky, University of Kentucky, and then Yale University for graduate school, graduating in 1933. He taught at State Teachers College (now University of Southern Mississippi) in 1934. He served as the head of the department of history at University of Mississippi in the late 1930’s. He was historian-in-residence at Agnes Scott College. He retired in 1977. Wiley died from a heart attack in 1980.
Bibliography
- The Un-Common Common Man, by Krista Rees. Emory Magazine, 2001