Author Information
David Cleutz is the author of two previous books featuring the 137th New York. His first book was the novel War & Redemption – A Civil War Tale (www.WarAndRedemption.com). It has been featured in columns in the Binghamton Press, Chambersburg (PA) Public Opinion, Skaneateles (NY) Press, and Syracuse Post-Standard. It has been featured on WSKG’s radio program, Off The Page. His second book was Col. David Ireland and the 137th NY – In Their Own Words, an annotated collection of letters from men of the regiment drawn from the 1860’s newspapers of upstate New York. He has written several articles on New York regiments at Gettysburg and Antietam.
A long-time resident of Binghamton, New York, Cleutz is a native Pennsylvanian. Born in Chambersburg, he grew up in Mercersburg, his family deeply rooted in Gettysburg and Hanover. His great-grandparents were direct observers of the battle of Gettysburg – Liberty Hollinger in Gettysburg, Samuel Forney in Hanover, and Jacob Hartman on the Littlestown road. The Gettysburg Battlefield was his playground as a boy.
Cleutz is a graduate of Mercersburg Academy, and holds advanced degrees from Case Western Reserve and Binghamton Universities. He is a member of the Binghamton Civil War Roundtable, the Historical Societies of Broome County (NY), Adams County (Gettysburg, PA), and Glen Haven (NY). He lectures frequently on the history of the 137th Regiment and related Civil War topics in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. (www.davidcleutz.com)
Cleutz lives with his wife Terry in a circa 1870 home on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Binghamton, New York. He writes there, and at his summer home on Skaneateles Lake, one of New York’s Finger Lakes.