Buell, Thomas B.

Thomas B. Buell, a retired naval officer and a former warship commander, is author of The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War (1997). His publications Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980); and The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1974) both received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement and the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. He also published Naval Leadership in Korea : The First Six Months in 2002. A 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Buell also attended the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College. Following his command at sea, he taught military history at the Naval War College and the U.S. Military Academy. Buell was also a writer-in-residence in the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a guest lecturer in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Retired Naval Commander Thomas B. Buell died on 26 June 2002.

Thomas B. Buell, a retired naval officer, is author of "The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War" (1997); "Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King" (1980); and "The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance" (1974).