Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. A native of Los Angeles, California, he received his B.A. from Adams State College of Colorado (1972) and his M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1982) from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught for twelve years at Penn State University before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia in 1998. His research and teaching focus on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is the author of five books and the editor and/or co-author of sixteen more, the most recent being The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 University of North Carolina Press, 2006. He also has published more than nine dozen articles and notes in scholarly journals and popular historical magazines, serves as editor of two book series at the University of North Carolina Press ("Civil War America;" and "Military Campaigns of the Civil War"), and has appeared regularly on the Arts and Entertainment Network's series "Civil War Journal;" as well as participating in more than two dozen other television projects in the field. Professor Gallagher received numerous prestigious awards for his work in Civil War history. Active in the field of historic preservation, Gallagher was president from 1987 to mid-1994 of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (an organization with a membership of more than 11,500 representing all 50 states). He also served as a member of the Board of the Civil War Trust and has given testimony about preservation before Congressional committees on several occasions.

Peter Carmichael

Peter Carmichael is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has also taught at Western Carolina University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Bachelor's degree from Indiana University at Indianapolis and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. His first book: Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram, was published by the University Press of Virginia in 1995. Carmichael contributed an article to and edited Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee, which Louisiana State University Press published in March 2004. He is the editor of the Voices of the Civil War series, published by the University of Tennessee Press and is also a series editor of "New Directions in Southern History;" at the University of Kentucky. His most recent book, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion, University of North Carolina Press, 2005) is one of the few scholarly studies that follow the trajectory of a Southern generation across the divide of the Civil War. His next book project will be "Black Rebels," which will explore the experience of slaves who served Confederate soldiers.

Troy Harman

Troy Harman is a National Park Service Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park. He has served as a historian with the National Park Service at Appomattox Court House National Historic Site, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Independence National Historic Park, Valley Forge National Military Park, Eisenhower National Historic Site, and has been with Gettysburg National Military Park since 1989. He received his BA in History from Lynchburg College, Virginia, in 1987 and his MA in History from Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, in 1998. He is currently working toward a PhD in History at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. He was awarded the "Bachelder Award For Original Research"; by the Senate of Pennsylvania in 2003. He has published in Civil War Times and North & South Magazine. His provocative book, Lee's Real Plan At Gettysburg, is in its third printing.

Earl J. Hess

Earl J. Hess has been a student of the Civil War since he was a teenager, growing up in rural Missouri. He completed his B.A. and M.A. degrees in History at Missouri State University. His Ph.D. in American Studies, with a concentration in History, was awarded by Purdue University in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Georgia, Texas Tech University, and the University of Arkansas. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty at Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, where he is Associate Professor of History, director of the History Program, and holds the Stewart McClelland Chair. Dr. Hess has published eight books, nineteen journal articles, and more than ninety book reviews. His book The Union Soldier in Battle won the U. S. Civil War Center’s Book of the Year Award, and Lee’s Tar Heels won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award. Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and won the James I. Robertson Literary Prize for Confederate History. His latest book is Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

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