The Spotsylvania Campaign

Contributors

Contributors William A. Blair is a member of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His publications include A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary, a forthcoming study of the Virginia home front during the Civil War, and several articles and essays on Civil War-era subjects. Peter S.Carmichael is a member of the Department of History at Western Carolina University . The author of Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. }. Pegram, as well as several essays and articles in popular and scholarlyjournals, he iscompleting a study of Virginia slaveholders ' sons and the formation of southern identity in the late antebellum years. GaryW. Gallagher is a member of the Department of History at Pennsylvania State University and editor of the CivilWar America series at the University of North Carolina Press. He has edited The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond; The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock; Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath; and The Wilderness Campaign, four previous titles in the Military Campaigns of the Civil War series. Robert E. L. Krick, a Richmond-based historian, was reared on the Chancellorsville battlefield . The author of The Fortieth Virginia Infantry and a number of essays and articles, he is completing a biographical register of the staff officers of the Army of Northern Virginia . Robert K. Krickgrew up in California but has lived and worked on the Virginia battlefields for more than twenty years. He has written dozens of articles and ten books, the most recent being Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. William D. Matter is a retired U.S. Air Force pilot who lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His publications include If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania and several articles on Civil War military topics. Carol Reardon isthe militaryhistorian at Pennsylvania State Universityand a former holder of the Harold Keith Johnson Visiting Professorship in Military History at the U.S. Army Military History Institute and U.S. Army War College. She is the author of Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S.Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920; Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, and numerous essays in the fields of Civil War and military history. Gordon C. Rheais an attorney who resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. He is the author of The Battle of the Wilderness: May 5-6, 1864; The Battlesfor Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern: May 7-12,1864; and several essays on Civil War military history. ( 259 This page intentionally left blank ...