Contributors to This Issue

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Janet L. Coryell is associate professor of history at Western Michigan University. She is co-editor of the formcorriing Southern Women 's Lives: Beyond the Conventions and, with James Greiner and James Smither, of A Surgeon 's Civil War: The Letters and Diary ofDaniel M. Holt, M.D. (1994)· Edward A. Miller, Jr., a VMI graduate, has a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. His most recent publication is Lincoln's Abolitionist General : The Biography ofDavid Hunter (1996). His book on the 29th U.S. Colored Infantry has been accepted for publication. Richard H. Abbott is professor of history at Eastern Michigan University . His most recent book is Cotton and Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform (1991). He is currently working on a book on the Republican press in the Reconstruction South. W. Jackson Dickens, Jr., is a master's candidate in history at the University of Richmond. Robert C. Kenzer, associate professor of history at the University of Richmond, is the author of Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881 (1987). ...