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Richard Wayne Lykes
Best known for clear, accessible books on the Civil War fighting around Petersburg, this mid-20th-century writer helped make National Park Service history available to general readers. His work continues to circulate through public-domain and library collections.
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Campaign for Petersburg
by Richard Wayne Lykes
Petersburg National Military Park, Virginia
by Richard Wayne Lykes
About the author
Richard Wayne Lykes was an American historical writer whose best-known books focus on Petersburg, Virginia, and the Civil War campaign fought there. Records from library and public-domain catalogs show that he wrote works including Petersburg National Military Park, Virginia, Petersburg Battlefields, and Campaign for Petersburg, several of them published through the National Park Service.
His writing appears to have been aimed at a broad audience rather than specialists alone. The surviving editions and handbook-style publications suggest a talent for explaining military history in a straightforward way, especially for readers interested in battlefield history and the story of Petersburg.
A memorial record identifies him as born in 1919 and deceased in 1996. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, his books remain the clearest part of his legacy and are still discoverable through Project Gutenberg, library listings, and historical reprints.