Donald L. Gilmore

Belton High School

Class of 1952

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Donald L. Gilmore - Class of 1952 - Belton High School

First Name	Donald L.
Last Name	Gilmore
Graduation Year	Class of 1952
Gender	Male
Current Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Hometown	Kansas City, Missouri
About Me	Donald L. Gilmore is the former senior editor of Combat Studies Institute and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he worked for seventeen years. He is the author of the books Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005); Eyewitness Vietnam: Firsthand Accounts from Operation Rolling Thunder to the Fall of Saigon (Sterling Publishing Co., April 2006); U.S. Army Atlas of the European Theater in World War II, editor (New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2004); the novel, Riding Vengeance with the James Gang (Pelican Publishing Company, 2009; the articles “Revenge in Kansas, 1863,” History Today (London, England, March 1993); “Total War on the Missouri Border,” Journal of the West (July 1996), awarded that journal’s “Best ‘about the West Article’ in 1996” (Kansas State University); “Showdown at Northfield”; “When the James Gang Ruled the Rails,” Wild West (August 1996 and August 2000); and ten biographical essays in Jerold E. Brown, ed., Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. He is also the author of fourteen book reviews in Journal of the West when it was affiliated with Kansas State University. In 1998, Gilmore was a consultant for Universal Studios’ Ang Lee motion picture, Ride With the Devil, the subject of which was the Border War. G presented forty-nine speeches nationwide, but mostly in Missouri-Kansas, but including Liberty University Sesquicentennial Civil War Seminar, keynote speaker, Lynchburg, VA; National Frontier Trails Center, Independence; Shepherd Center, Kansas City; Teacher's Institute, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence; Civil War Round Tables of Harrisonville, Kansas City, Eastern Kansas, Western Missouri; Decatur, IL; historical societies including Grandview, Belton, Grain Valley, Cass County, Vernon County, and Oak Grove, MO; Crystal Coast Book Festival and Morehead Library, North Carolina; Three Annual Division meetings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Missouri and Kansas; Thomas Key, Gen. John T. Hughes, Lewis and Harrison, Elijah Gates, and John T. Coffee SCV camps; Marine Mobilization Command, Grandview, MO; 75 Tactics Department professors, Eisenhower Auditorium, CGSC; Fort Leavenworth Historical Society; Rotary Clubs, Lawrence, KS, and Belton/Raymore, MO; Independence Civil War Study Group; James Farm Home and Museum; Wornall House Museum; the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; organized staff rides to Lawrence, KS, James home St. Joseph and Kearney, etc.ilmore has MA and BA degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he was a lecturer (1981). He also has taught at Longview Community College, Lee’s Summit, Missouri (1980-1984), and Avila University (2004). He received the Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2001, and Commander’s Award for Civilian Service for exceptional performance, 1997. Gilmore is a U.S. Army veteran of Signal Company USARAL (United States Army Alaska, 1957-1959). "Mush you Huskies!" Gilmore became a memberof The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 2009. His Scotch-Irish-English family lived around Raynham (Town) and Norfolk, MA from 1700-1810, and some live there still. He had eleven ancestors in that area who fought in the Revolutionary War, one Tyrrell Gilmore losing his life at Concord. His other family were Germans from the area of Hesse, the town of Kurhof, likely, and Belgians. His grandmother was an immigrant from Norway, from the area around Oslo. He has family connections with Mayflower Pilgrim, ...(read more)