Contributors

earl j. hess is the Stewart W. McClelland Chair of History at Lincoln Memorial University and is the author of twenty-three books, eighteen of them on Civil War history.

daniel peart is lecturer in American History at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (2014).

sarah l. h. gronningsater is assistant professor of history at the California Institute of Technology.

michael e. woods is assistant professor of history at Marshall University and is the author of Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (2016) and Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (2014).

john m. sacher is associate professor at the University of Central Florida. This article is part of his current book project—a history of Confederate conscription.

william d. carrigan is chair and professor of History at Rowan University. He is the author or editor of numerous scholarly articles and four books on the history of lynching.