Every issue of Civil War Book Review presents reviews by noted historians, critics, and authors, matching some of America's leading writers with books that enhance the public's knowledge or appreciation of the Civil War era. In addition, our pages often include reviews assigned to specialists outside of traditional Civil War fields or to independent scholars.

Reviewers from all issues are listed below in alphabetical order:

Jennifer Abraham is the director of Louisiana State University's T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. She holds a master's degree in anthropology and wrote her thesis on plantation archaeology in Natchez, Mississippi.

William Etter, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at Irvine Valley College. His article on Alfred Bellard's Civil War memoir will appear in the April 2005 issue of Prose Studies, and he has recently completed a book manuscript entitled "The Good Body": Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature.

Don Evans is a newspaper editor and the author of Locust Alley: A Novel of the Civil War (2000).

James O. Farmer, Jr., is the June Rainsford Henderson Professor of Southern and Local History at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He is the author of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values and articles on the woman suffrage campaign and early civil rights movement in South Carolina, and the Civil War reenactment hobby, among others.

Collen H. Fava is a former editor of Civil War Book Review.

Timothy J. Feldhausen is a former naval officer who was once an engineer himself. He has taught history at the U.S. Naval Academy and is now studying law.

Dr. Noel Fisher is the author of War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869 and of a forthcoming work on the Civil War in the Great Smoky Mountains region.

Michael W. Fitzgerald, Professor of History at St. Olaf College, is most recently the author of Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (Ivan R. Dee, 2007).

Andre M. Fleche is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia studying under Gary W. Gallagher. He is author of the forthcoming article "Shoulder to Shoulder as Comrades Tired: Black and White Union Veterans and Civil War Memory," in Civil War History, and is completing a dissertation on European revolutions and the American Civil War.

Kenneth E. Foote is professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He writes on American landscape history, memory, and commemoration. His 1997 book Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy won the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographies.

Lorien Foote is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform and is currently writing a book about manhood and military justice in the Union Army.

Estelle Ford-Williamson, who writes in the Atlanta area, is author of Abbeville Farewell: A Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia. Her articles and stories have appeared in literary journals, and she is working on a second novel, Rising Fawn. She can be reached at fordwilliams@hotmail.com.

Gaines M. Foster is T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913.

John D. Fowler is an Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. His first book, Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., will be published by the University of Tennessee Press next summer.

Robert H. Fowler, the founder and former editor/publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated, is the author of several widely acclaimed historical novels.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese taught southern history and literature at Emory University. Her books include Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. She and Eugene D. Genovese are finishing The Mind of the Master Class, a study of the intellectual and cultural life of the southern slaveholders.

Jason Mann Frawley is a Ph.D. student at Texas Christian University, where he studies under the tutelage of Professor Steven E. Woodworth. He is currently co-editing and co-writing two books with his major professor and working on completing his coursework before writing his dissertation.

Christopher S. Freeman is a former editor of Civil War Book Review.

Frank R. Freemon, M.D., is the author of Microbes and Minie Balls (1993), an annotated bibliography of Civil War medicine, and Gangrene and Glory (1998), the full story of northern versus southern medicine during the great American fratricide.

Derek W. Frisby is an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University, editor of the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, and USMC veteran of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He has published several articles and chapters on the Civil War in Tennessee and continues his work on related projects, including revising his 2004 dissertation, “Homemade Yankees: West Tennessee Civil War Unionists in the Civil War Era,” for publication with the University of Tennessee Press.

Mary Bahr Fritts, author of If Nathan Were Here (2000) and The Memory Box (1995), has written more than 150 stories and articles. She currently is working under a grant to finish a book on Abraham Lincoln.

Meg Galante-DeAngelis teaches at the University of Connecticut. As a social historian, her search for a glimpse at our ancestors as people has led her to study the lives of the soldiers of the Civil War and their families.

Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. His books include The Confederate War (1997) and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (1998).

J. Matthew Gallman is a professor of history at the University of Florida. The author of various publications on the Civil War home front, his most recent book is America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Oxford, 2006). He is currently working on a history of satire and dissent in the North during the Civil War..

James P. Gannon, a descendent of an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate soldier, is a former newspaper writer and editor, and author of Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: A History of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865 (1998). He lives in Virginia where he owns a bookstore. His email address is bookchurch@earthlink.net.

Sarah E. Gardner, associate professor of history at Mercer University, is the author of Blood and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937, published by the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the politics of southern literature and national book reviews during the first half of the twentieth century.

Nancy Scripture Garrison is a guest lecturer in Women's Studies at Curry College and a contributor to North & South magazine. She is the author of With Courage and Delicacy (1999), an analysis of the U.S. Sanitary Commission and its elite transport nurses during the Peninsula campaign.

Dr. David J. Gerleman is a lecturer in American history at George Mason University, and is active in numerous history organizations in Washington, DC. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Mount and Master: The Civil War Cavalry Trooper and His Horse--A Study of Care, Treatment, and Use, 1861-1866.

David Gleeson is an associate professor of history and a co-director of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston. He is currently working on a book on Irish immigrants in the Confederacy and their participation in the Lost Cause.

Currently writing a biography of Jimmy Carter, E. Stanly Godbold is the author of the prize-winning Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas (October 2001).

Timothy S. Good, author of We Saw Lincoln Shot, writes from Springfield Illinois.

Lesley J. Gordon, assistant professor of history at the University of Akron, is the author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (1998) and co-editor of the forthcoming Intimate Strategies: Marriages of the Civil War.

Kathleen Gorman is associate professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Warren E. Grabau earned a Master of Science in Geology/Geography from Michigan State University in 1950 and worked in a variety of related fields until 1986, at which time he traded his vocation (science) for his avocation (military history).

Kent Gramm is Program Director for the Seminary Ridge Historical Preservation Foundation in Gettysburg and teaches as Wheaton College (IL). He is the author of Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values, November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg and Somebody's Darling: Essays on the Civil War.

Ronald J. Grele served for almost 20 years as the director of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. He is the author of Envelopes of Sound: the Art of Oral History, and editor of Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History: The International Annual of Oral History (1990).

W. Todd Groce is executive director if the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee and is the author of Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 (1990).

Winston Groom is the author of 13 books, including Forrest Gump and Shrouds of Glory, a history of the Battle of Nashville. He will have two books published this year: a history of football at the University of Alabama and El Paso, a novel set in northern Mexico in 1915-16.

Dr. Jennifer L. Gross is a professor of American history at Jacksonville State University. Her research and teaching interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, the American South, Women’s History, and the History of Africa. She is currently working on a book assessing the experience of Confederate widowhood in the postbellum South.

William S. Gross is a retired Army Reserve Colonel and Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Dallas now working in the private sector. A Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, he has a wide range of experience in the military, engineering design and construction and in disaster response and recovery. His e-mail address is bgross@airmail.net

Robert Gudmestad is an assistant professor of history at Colorado State University. The author of A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade (2003), he is writing a book about steamboats and the growth of the cotton kingdom.

Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University and the author of Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840 and, with Thomas E. Woods, Jr., of Who Killed the Constitution? (forthcoming in July 2008).

Kurt Hackemer ,an associate professor at the University of South Dakota, is the author of The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847-1883 (2001). He is currently working on the letters of William T. Shepherd, a Union soldier who served as both an artilleryman and ordnance clerk in the Mississippi River Valley. Professor Hackemer can be contacted at khackeme@usd.edu.

Debi Hamlin (dph3@acpub.duke.edu) is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Duke University and assistant to the historian John Hope Franklin. She is co-editor of Allen Parker's Recollections of Slavery Time (forthcoming in 2002), has published several biographical essays, and is currently writing her dissertation.

James D. Hardy, Jr. is a professor of history in the Honors College at Louisiana State University and has published several books on both history and literature, including one on baseball.

Michael Hargraves has served for 12 years as a cataloguer in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.

Judith E. Harper is also the author of Susan B. Anthony: A Biographical Companion (ABC-CLIO, 1998). Her newest book, Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia, will be published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis) in October 2003. She may be contacted at the following e-mail address: jeharper@ziplink.net.

Margaret C. Harrison is a reference librarian at the State Library of Louisiana.

Dale F. Harter is the assistant editor of Virginia Cavalcade, the quarterly magazine of Virginia history and culture published by the Library of Virginia.

Alec Hasenson is author of The Golden Arrow (1970) and The History of Dover Harbour (1980). He is editor of Crossfire, the newsletter of the American Civil War Round Table in London.

Herman Hattaway recently published, with LSU art professor A.J. Meek, From Gettysburg to Vicksburg: the First Five Battlefield Parks (2001).

John Hennessy, author of Return to Bull Run, writes from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Charles F. Herberger, professor emeritus of Nasson College, is editor of A Yankee at Arms: The Diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers and author of books and articles on historical topics.

Martin J. Hershock is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the co-editor of The History of Michigan Law and author of Paradox of Progress: Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837-1873. He is currently co-editing The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia and is working on a book-length microhistory of a New Hampshire debtor to be published by Harvard University Press under the title Lord Make Haste to Help Me.

Earl J. Hess is an associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University and author of The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat.

Wallace Hettle Wallace Hettle is an associate professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War (2001). He currently is working on a study of Stonewall Jackson’s image in American culture.

Formerly a historic site manager, professor of history, and managing editor of North & South, Lawrence Lee Hewitt (llhinc@mcs.com) currently resides in Chicago where, in collaboration with Thomas Schott, he is writing a biography of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. His previous publications include Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi (1994).

Thomas Hill received an M.A. in history from Oklahoma State University and is currently working toward an M.F.A. in writing at the University of Memphis where he also teaches. He can be reached at thill70@yahoo.com.

Wolfgang Hochbruck is American Studies Professor at Braunschweig Technical University in Germany and current chairperson of the CWRT of Germany. He has published articles on the CW in Faulkner and Crane, and his 'Habilitationsschrift' is a cultural history of the memory of the Civil War in literature and film.

James K. Hogue is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His book, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2006. It is a study dedicated to analyzing Reconstruction as a military campaign of post-war occupation, insurgency, and counterinsurgency, and America’s first military attempt at what we today recognize as “nation building.”.

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., is associate provost, professor of psychology, and lecturer in history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has written two books on the Civil War; The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (1995), and Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks (1998). His latest book, An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866, is due out this spring.

Harold Holzer has co-authored 23 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. He is co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and vice chairman of The Lincoln Forum.

Tony Horwitz is author of Confederates in the Attic.

Helen Howerton is the contributing editor for Murder: Past Tense, the journal of the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. She is also chairman of the Convention Committee for the 2003 meeting of Left Coast Crime, an annual gathering of mystery authors and readers.

Dr. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy.

Lynn M. Hudson is a member of the history department at California Polytechnic State University. She is the author of a biography of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a black abolitionist and supporter of John Brown, The Making of 'Mammy Pleasant': A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (University of Illinois Press, 2003).

Peter A. Huff holds the T. L. James chair in religious studies at Centenary College of Louisiana and is currently a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Minnesota. He is author of Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival (Paulist Press, 1996) and What Are They Saying About Fundamentalisms? (Paulist Press, 2008).

James L. Huston is a Professor of History at Oklahoma State University.

M. Thomas Inge is the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where he teaches and writes about American and Southern culture. His recent books include Conversations with William Faulkner (1999) and the first fully annotated modern edition of Sam Watkins’s memoir, Company Aytch (1999).

John Jakes is an internationally acclaimed historical novelist and author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers. He has written extensively about the Civil War in Charleston, On Secret Service, The North and South Trilogy, and several volumes of The Kent Family Chronicles.© 2003 by John Jakes. All rights reserved.

Lance Janda is an assistant professor of history at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. He has written articles for The Journal of Military History, serves as the book review editor for Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, and recently published a book entitled Stronger than Custom: West Point and the Admission of Women (2001).

Caroline E. Janney is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University and the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.

Dr. Wilbert Jenkins teaches at Temple University.

Clayton E. Jewett is a visiting assistant professor at Texas Lutheran University and is the author of Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building, and Rise and Fall of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Senator Williamson S. Oldham, CSA. He is currently working on an analysis of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy.

Gary D. Joiner is director of the Red River Regional Studies Center at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He is also an Assistant Professor of History at LSU-S. His publications include One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864 (Scholarly Resources: 2003). He is the co-author of numerous books, articles, and technical reports in the areas Civil War, naval history, archeology, regional history, and cultural resources.

Carolyn M. Jones is Associate Professor of Religion and in the Institute of African American Studies at the University of Georgia. She writes on Southern women writers and on the intersection of classical and modern literature.

Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., an associate professor and research archivist at the University of Virginia's Special Collections Department, is the author of three books including Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (University of Virginia Press, 1995). He most recently contributed to Virginia's Civil War (2005), and was a historical advisor for the 2003 motion picture Gods & Generals.

Walter D. Kamphoefner waltkamp@tamu.edu, who teaches immigration history at Texas A&M University, has just finished co-editing a nationwide anthology of German-American Civil War letters, Deutsche im Amerikanischen Biigerkrieg: Brief von Front und Farm (Schoningh: Paderborn, 2002), which is being translated with NEH support for future English publication.

A columnist for the news site LewRockwell.com, Myles Kantor (mbkantor@aol.com) writes from Boynton Beach, Florida.

Robert C. Kenzer is the William Binford Vest Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is the co-editor with John C. Inscoe of Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives of Unionists in the Civil War South (2001).

Amy J. Kinsel is the author of "American Identity, National Reconciliation, and the Memory of the Civil War," published in Proteus: A Journal of Ideas (Fall 2000), and of the forthcoming book Gettysburg in American Culture, 1863-1938.

Stephen M. Klugewicz (sklug@chesbay.com) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alabama. Among his published historical writings is the recent article, "The First Martyrs': The Sixth Massachusetts and the Baltimore Riot of 1861."

Morgan N. Knull, a former editor of Civil War Book Review, teaches philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College.

Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama during the spring of 2001. His dissertation is entitled "From Volunteers to Veterans: A Social and Military History of the II Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865."

Robert K. Krick, the author of a dozen Civil War books, has lived on the battlefields around Fredericksburg for 30 years.

Glenn W. LaFantasie is the author of many articles about Gettysburg and of two forthcoming books: Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of William C. Oates (Oxford University Press) and Twilight at Little Round Top (John Wiley & Sons).

Michael Laff is a Dallas-based freelance writer who is pursuing a master's degree in liberal arts.

John P. Langellier received his Ph.D. in military history from Kansas State University. One of his most recent books, Custer: The Man, The Myth, The Movies (2000), treats film and television representations of this flamboyant former Union cavalry commander, who rode to his death at the Little Bighorn.

Connie Langum is the historian at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield and Midwest coordinator for the American Battlefield Protection Program.

Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., is the author of Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. (Ballantine Books, 2004) She can be reached at kcliflar@aol.com.

Harry S. Laver is an assistant professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University. He recently published "Refuge of Manhood: Masculinity and the Militia Experience," in Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, eds. Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College and the author of three books on the Civil War era: Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393036669, $43.95 hardcover); All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (Penguin, ISBN 0140298584, $15.00 hardcover); and Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393048683, $25.95 paperback). She is currently at work on two different book-length projects: a biography of the Civil War era judge advocate general, Joseph Holt, and a study of the post-1865 U.S. army in the Indian wars.

Wolfgang Lepschy teaches composition and business writing at Louisiana State University. He is currently writing his dissertation in the English Department.

Kevin M. Levin teaches American history and the Civil War at the St. Anne's - Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the author of the forthcoming article, "William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History" which will appear in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.

Bruce Levine is the James G. Randall Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War (rev. ed., 2004) and Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2005).

Larry G. Ligget is the co-author, with the late Frank J. Welcher, of Coburn’s Brigade: 85th Indiana, 33rd Indiana, 19th Michigan, and 22nd Wisconsin in the Western Civil War (1999). He has devoted 25 years to the study of the Civil War, and is the managing editor of a scholarly journal.

O. James Lighthizer is the president of the Civil War Preservation Trust, an organization devoted to battlefield preservation. A Civil War enthusiast and former Maryland public servant, he taught Civil War History at Anne Arundel Community College.

Edward T. Linenthal is the author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields, and The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.

Tom Linthicum, a journalist for more than 25 years with a longtime interest in the Civil War, has reviewed a number of books on the subject. He is currently director of organization development and employment at the Baltimore Sun.

William (Mac) E. Little works as a State Budget Management Analyst for the State of Louisiana. He holds graduate degrees in law and public administration and currently is pursuing a Ph.D. in public policy at Southern University.

David E. Long is professor of history at East Carolina University. Trained as a lawyer and a historian, he has authored numerous works on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era, including The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery (1994).

Thomas P. Lowry is a retired professor of psychiatry. His latest books are Tarnished Scalpels- The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons, and Swamp Doctor- A New York Surgeon in the Marshes of Virginia and North Carolina.

Eric Love is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.

David Lucander is a Ph.D. candidate in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

John R. Lundberg is the author of The Finishing Stroke: Texans in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign (Abilene: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2002). He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently an M.A. candidate in American History at Texas Christian University.

James MacDonald is currently working toward his Ph.D. in American history at Louisiana State University.

Founding Director of the United States Civil War Center and founder of the Civil War Book Review, David Madden is most recently the editor, with long introductions, of Thomas Wolfe's Civil War and a reprint of Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors. In a collection of his essays to be published in the fall, Touching the Web of Southern Writers, he makes much of the effect of the war upon Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, James Agee, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, among others. Appearing at the same time will be a collection of essays by several critics and writers about Madden's work called David Madden: A Writer for All Genres. He is on sabbatical finishing two new novels and planning three innovative books about the Civil War. This month, he received the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

John Majewski is associate professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Robert Mann is author of A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam (2001) and is chairman of the On-Site Advisory Board of the U.S. Civil War Center.

Stephen E. Maizlish, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, is author of The Triumph of Sectionalism, the Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844-1856 and “Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform.”

Chandra Manning is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University, and is the author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War.

Jeffrey D. Marshall is Director of Research Collections at the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library. He edited A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters (1999), and has written several articles and a historical novel, The Inquest (2006).

John F. Marszalek is W.L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Mississippi State University. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including two on William T. Sherman.

James Marten (james.marten@marquette.edu) is professor of history at Marquette University and author of Texas Divided: Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874 and The Children's Civil War (1998). He is director of Children in Urban America Project, an online archive of children's history.

Matthew Mason is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University.

Robert E. May, Professor of History at Purdue University, is the author of The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 (1973; paper ed., University Press of Florida, 2002) and Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Many of his publications address the issue of antebellum slavery. He can be contacted at rmay@sla.purdue.edu.

Ward M. McAfee, Professor Emeritus at CSU, San Bernardino, is the author of Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s (SUNY Press, 1998) and Citizen Lincoln (Nova Science Publishers, 2004). He also completed and edited Don E. Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Henry N. McCarl is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education, School of Business, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. McCarl has published articles on the subject of Confederate counterfeit currency in Paper Money Magazine and is a life member of the Society of Paper Money Collectors and the American Numismatic Association.

Charles L. McCollum is a former editorial assistant at Civil War Book Review. He interviewed southern historian William J. Cooper, Jr. in the Winter 2001 issue.

Robert Tracy McKenzie is a professor of history at the University of Washington and is the author of Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (2006).

Gordon McKinney is Professor of History and Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College. He is co-author--with John C. Inscoe--of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina and the Civil War (2000) and author of Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader (2004).

Sally G. McMillen, Professor of History and Department Chair at Davidson College, is the author of Motherhood in the Old South; Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South, and To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865 - 1915.

George McNamara is involved in the work to rehabilitate the name and reputation of Doctor Samuel A. Mudd. He lectures and has written numerous articles on the subject. His writing has also included subjects, for children, related to the Civil War.

Mitchell McNaylor is a writer living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Karen Rae Mehaffey is a library director at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently finishing a manuscript on mourning rituals and the American Civil War. She can be reached at Mehaffey.Karen@shms.edu.

Wilbur E. Meneray is assistant dean for Special Collections at Tulane University. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Association and serves on the board of the Memorial Hall Museum. He has received the Charles L. Dufour Award for contributions to Civil War history from the New Orleans Civil War Roundtable.

Virginia Mescher, a social, domestic and food historian, is a 1972 graduate of Virginia Tech in Home Economics specializing in Housing, Management and Family Development, and primary, secondary, and adult education. She has been involved in living history interpretation since 1988 and specializes in material culture and domestic activities. A frequent contributor to publications associated with the Civil War, she writes a column for her website, and has written a number of books, the titles of which may be found on the her website, under the AModern Books@ link. She owns Vintage Volumes, which publishes books and games related to nineteenth century culture and may be contacted via her web site, http://www.vintagevolumes.com or at vmescher@vt.edu.

Randall M. Miller, a Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University, has written on various aspects of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Among his many books, he has forthcoming, co-edited with Paul Cimbala, a collection of essays on the “unfinished” Civil War.

Richard F. Miller is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, author of Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (University Press of New England, Fall, 2005), A Carrier at War: Onboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War, (Brasseys, Summer, 2005) and co-author of The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience (Wesco Publishing, 1994).

William J. Miller is the author of Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss and is former editor of Civil War Magazine.

Amy Minton is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia and Adjunct Faculty at George Mason University. She is currently finishing her dissertation, entitled "A Culture of Respectability: Southerners and Social Relations in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1865."

Joe A. Mobley is a former administrator and historian with the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. Currently he is a visiting lecturer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. His book "War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy is scheduled for publication by the University Press of Florida in the summer 2005.

Carl Moneyhon teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a specialist in Southern history during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Relevant publications include The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas, 1850-1874 (1994) and "Disloyalty and Class Consciousness in Southwestern Arkansas, 1862-1865," Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1993).

Michael Montgomery, emeritus professor of English at the University of South Carolina, was consulting editor for language in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He currently is working on a book about the Scottish and Irish roots of American English.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, historian Roy Morris Jr. is the author of Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, and The Better Angel: Walt Whitman and the Civil War. His next book, Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, will be published by Simon & Schuster in February 2003.

Bob Mrazek is the author of Stonewall's Gold, which won the Michael Shaara Prize as the best Civil War Novel of 1999. His forthcoming novel is called Hooker's Tale.

William H. Mulligan, Jr. is an associate professor of history and director of the Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute at Murray State University. With Joseph E. Brent he edited "Sacred Ground: Preserving America's Civil War Heritage" in the George Wright Society Forum (1998).

Angela F. Murphy is assistant professor of history at Texas State University in San Marcos. She is the author of “‘It Outlaws Me and I Outlaw It!’: Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse, New York,” in African Americans in New York Life and History and of “Daniel O’Connell and the ‘American Eagle’ in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America’s First Irish Nationalist Movement,” in the Journal of American Ethic History. She currently is working on a book on the interactions between abolitionists and Irish nationalists in the 1840s.

Barton A. Myers is a doctoral candidate in Southern history at the University of Georgia. He is currently working on two books that focus on guerrilla violence, political dissent, and military policy in Civil War-era North Carolina.

Al Neale is Chief of Education and Visitor Services at Pamplin Historical Park and The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. He is a musician who performs on a variety of period instruments and who specializes in teaching American history by incorporating period music. He can be contacted at alneale@comcast.net

Mark E. Neely, Jr., McCabe-Greer Professor of Civil War History at Pennsylvania State University, won a Pulitzer Prize in history for his book, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.

Paul David Nelson is professor of history at Berea College, Berea, KY, where he has taught for the past thirty-four years. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles and essays on the America Revolutionary era.

Laura Ng is a former editor of Civil War Book Review.

Albert A. Nofi holds a Ph.D. in military history. Currently employed as a defense analyst, he is the author or editor of some 30 books, several of them on the Civil War, and contributes regular columns to North & South and StrategyPage.

Jonathan A. Noyalas is director of the School Outreach Program of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University, and is an interpreter at the Stonewall Jackson Headquarters Museum in Winchester, Virginia.

Stephen Oates taught history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is author of The Whirlwind of War, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War, and other works. He currently is writing a new book on Lincoln.

Mr. E. Rory O'Connor holds a Master's degree in History from Louisiana State University and works as a Flag Writer / Public Affairs for Team Submarine, the United States Navy's submarine research, design, acquisition, and maintenance organization.

Tony O'Connor ( vtcwe@hotmail.com ) is president of the Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable and the owner of Vermont Civil War Enterprises, which reproduces old books about the American Civil War. He can be reached at http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/vtcwe.htm.

Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel is assistant professor of history at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of Bleeding Borders: The Intersection of Gender, Race and Region in Pre-Civil War Kansas and is currently working on a biography of Clarina I.H. Nichols.

Jill Ogline is associate director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

Larry Olpin is Professor Emeritus of English from Central Missouri State University and is at work on an endless manuscript on fiction of the Civil War from 1950 to 2000. He can be reached at olpin@socket.net.

Joel Olson is an assistant professor of political science at Northern Arizona University. His book, The Abolition of White Democracy, has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press. He can be reached at joel.olson@nau.edu.

Mackubin Thomas Owens is professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also teaches a course on the policy and strategy of the American Civil War.

Beverly Wilson Palmer of Pomona College (bpalmer@pomona.edu) has edited the correspondence of Charles Sumner, as well as microfilm and book editions of the Thaddeus Stevens Papers (1994,1997,1998) and the Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (2002).

Phillip Shaw Paludan is the Naomi Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield. He is the author of A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law and Equality in the Civil War Era; Victims, A True Story of the Civil War; A People’s Contest: The Union and Civil War; and The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, for which he won the Lincoln Prize. He may be reached by e-mail at ppaludan@insightbb.com.

T. Michael Parrish is an archivist at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. He serves also as general editor of the LSU Press series "Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War."

Paul F. Paskoff is associate professor of history at Louisiana State University, where he teaches U.S. economic history. He has just completed a book manuscript on antebellum public policy.

Rodger Payne is the author of The Self and the Scared: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism (1998).

James L. Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently working on a study of relations between religious and cultural groups in Singapore, as a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and during the 2003-04 academic year will be a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Cary, North Carolina, where he will continue comparative study of the global U.S. South.

William D. Pederson, the American Studies Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, is the author and editor of many books, most recently The FDR Years (2006), and The Great Presidential Triumvirate at Home and Abroad (2006).

Michael Perman is Research Professor in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author most recently of Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 (2001) and a second edition of his Emancipation and Reconstruction (2003).

Geoffrey Perret is the author of 10 books, mainly in the field of military history and biography. He is a contributor to American Heritage and Military History Quarterly. His most recent work is a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Thomas D. Perry, the Founder of the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace (www.jebstuart.org), is a graduate of Virginia Tech, and can be contacted at www.freestateofpatrick.com. He is the author of Ascent to Glory: The Genealogy of J. E. B. Stuart and the upcoming Free State of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia in the Civil War.

Allan Peskin (a.peskin@csuohio.edu) is professor emeritus at Cleveland State University and is the author of a biography of James A. Garfield and, more recently, Winfield Scott.

Julie Pfeiffer is an assistant professor at Hollins University, where she teaches children's literature, British literature, and women's studies. She is editor of the journal Children's Literature, published by Yale University Press.

Christopher Phillips is professor of history at The University of Cincinnati. He has authored or edited numerous books, most recently The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005). His current project is a study of the Civil War on the middle border and its social and cultural effects on regional identity, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Dale Phillips is a 25-year employee of the National Park Service. He has served at numerous national parks throughout the country and is currently superintendent of the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, IN. He may be reached by e-mail at dkp55@wvc.net.

Matthew Pinsker is a visiting assistant professor of American history at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Lincoln's Wartime Retreat (2003).

W. Scott Poole is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston. He is the author of Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and of the forthcoming South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative (Mercer, 2005).

David Lee Poremba is a librarian/archivist at the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library and the author of several pictorial works on City of Detroit history.

Benjamin Price is an instructor of history at Louisiana State University and author of Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776 (March 1999). He is currently working on a book on LSU as a military school.

R. Scott Price, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, is author of Nathaniel Lyon: Harbinger From Kansas (1991) and The Ghosts of Fort Riley (1998). He has just finished a fictional work on Civil War drummer boys entitled The Shattered Drum, and currently has two other books underway.

Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Ph.D., is the author of All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 (2001).

Joseph Pugh, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) is an instructor in the Business Department at Immaculata College in Pennsylvania. His primary interest is collecting Civil War small arms ammunition. He is a member if the Board of Governors of The Company of Military Historians and is a member of several other military history organizations.

June Pulliam teaches courses in Civil War Literature, horror fiction, and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. She is also the editor of Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction (www.lsu.edu/necrofile).

Paul D. H. Quigley, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is writing a dissertation on the ideology of southern nationalism, 1848-1865.

George C. Rable is the Charles Summersell Professor of Southern History at the University of Alabama and is currently completing a work entitled, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and co-editor (with Richard Newman and Phillip Lapsanksy) of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860(Routledge, 2000).

Ethan S. Rafuse is associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS.

James A. Ramage, Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, is author of Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan and Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby. He is currently writing a book on the history of Kentucky from 1800 to 1865 with his daughter Andrea Watkins and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

Steven J. Ramold is an Assistant Professor of American History at Eastern Michigan University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, and is the author of Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy. Ramold is currently working on a book on criminal justice and discipline in the Union Army.

Matthew A. Rarey, who has worked at The Washington Times and USA Today, is recipient of the 2000 Patrick B. McGuigan Op-Ed Award. He currently works for a Chicago investment firm, but given the choice, prefers Gettysburg to Bloomberg.

Jory V. Reedy is the editor of the Civil War Roundtable of Easter Kansas's newsletter.

Jane Rhodes is an associate professor if ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana, 1998).

Kym S. Rice is the Assistant Director of the Museum Studies Program at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her exhibition work focuses on African American history and includes "Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South."

Wesley Allen Riddle is fellow at the National Humanities Institute and author of recent essays on the Whig party in Humanitas.

Ronald D. Rietveld, professor of history at Cal State, Fullerton, has written extensively on Lincoln, the antebellum period, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and the history of religion in America. He is working on a new study of the Lincoln White House community.

Jennifer Ritterhouse is an Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University and is currently completing a monograph titled Learning Race: Racial Etiquette and the Socialization of Children in the Jim Crow South.

James L. Roark, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University, is working on The Confederate Experience: A Documentary History of Southerners at War.

Giselle Roberts is a Research Associate in American History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Confederate Belle (University of Missouri Press, 2003) and the editor of The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson (University of Georgia Press and the Southern Texts Society, 2004).

William H. Roberts is a retired US Navy commander with a Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. He is the author of Civil War Ironclads: Industrial Mobilization for the Union Navy, USS New Ironsides in the Civil War, and Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War, to be published in Autumn 2004 by the University of Nebraska Press.

James I. Robertson, Jr., is author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend and other books.

Glenn Robins is an assistant professor of history of Georgia Southwestern State University.

John C. Rodrigue is associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 (LSU Press, 2001).

Sylvia Frank Rodrigue runs Sylverlining LLC (www.sylverlining.com), an editorial consulting service, and serves as executive editor for Southern Illinois University Press. She is the coauthor of Historic Baton Rouge: An Illustrated History.

Julia Rose is a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the ethics of representations of slave life in Louisiana museums. Rose has been a contributor to the CWBR since 2001.

Charles D. Ross, associate professor of physics at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia, is author of Trial by Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War (2000). His second book, dealing with the effects of unusual acoustics on Civil War battles, is due out in spring 2001.

Steve Ross is a journalist for SpecComm International. In 2000 he worked at the Stonewall Jackson House in Lexington, Virginia, as the Edmund N. Snyder Graduate Fellow. He is the author of To Prepare Our Sons for All the Duties that May Lie Before Them: The Hillsborough Military Academy and Military Education in Antebellum North Carolina, North Carolina Historical Review (2002).

Sarah Roth is an assistant professor of history at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Joshua D. Rothman is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Notorious in t