Historian
Born in 1949 in Omaha, Nebraska, Paul V. Chiles was bit by the history bug at an early age. He received a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1971. During the summers of 1970 and 1971, he worked at Gettysburg National Military Park as a seasonal Ranger Historian and decided to be an interpretive ranger at a Civil War park. Chiles was commissioned into the Infantry through Army ROTC with two years of active duty at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and Ft. Polk, Louisiana, plus four years reserve. He later served two years with the Veterans Administration in Denver, Colorado as a Benefit Counselor to get into the Civil Service. He worked as an Intake Ranger Trainee and Interpretive Naturalist at Badlands National Park in South West South Dakota for five years to get into the Park Service. Chiles has been Antietam's National Park Service Historian since May, 1981. He is also a black powder safety officer and resident small arms and artillery buff. Hobbies and interests are reading (especially history and science fiction), photography, woodworking, leather working, competitive shooting, gunsmithing, reloading, living history, artillery and military technology, and folk, classical and bluegrass music.
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