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Contributors Note: The institution granting the contributor’s highest degree is given in parentheses following his or her name. MARK K. CHRIST (Oklahoma) is the community outreach director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, where he heads the agency’s battlefield protection efforts, and is a member of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. He is the author and editor of several books about Arkansas history, particularly the Civil War period. These include Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas (1994), Getting Used to Being Shot At: The Spence Family Civil War Letters (2002), “All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell”: The Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring (2003), and Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State (2010). A former journalist, he lives in Little Rock with his wife Kim and daughters Emily and Cassandra. JOSEPH G. DAWSON III (Louisiana State) is professor of history at Texas A&M University –College Station. His books include Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana , 1862–1877 (1982), which won the General Kemper Williams Prize, and Doniphan ’s Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War (1999), and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Military History and Civil War History, among other journals. He has contributed several chapters to edited books, including “The First of the Modern Wars?” in Themes on the American Civil War (2009), edited by SusanMary Grant. BILL J. GURLEY (Tennessee) is professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Pharmacy. He has been a student of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi for more than thirty years and coedited I Acted from Principle: The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi (2002). He is currently editing the illustrated casebook of Dr. Henry Dye, a Texas surgeon who served in the Trans-Mississippi, and preparing a book-length study of Mosby Monroe Parsons and his Confederate Missouri division. CURTIS W. MILBOURN (Angelo State) is a lieutenant and twenty-two-year veteran of the San Angelo Police Department as well as a part-time history instructor at Angelo State University. A native of central Michigan, he served in the United States Air Force before moving to Tom Green County, Texas, in 1984. Milbourn has published numerous articles, both regionally and nationally, on various topics related to Confederate Major General Tom Green, and he is frequently a guest speaker on various Contributors 290 aspects of Green’s life, his military exploits, and his family. Milbourn hopes to one day publish a book-length biography of General Green. JEFFERY S. PRUSHANKIN (Arkansas) is assistant professor in Civil War studies at Millersville University and a lecturer in military history at Penn State Abington. In 2006 he received the Penn State Abington Special Recognition Award for implementing a Gettysburg Staff-Ride for students. His publications include A Crisis in Confederate Command: Richard Taylor, Edmund Kirby-Smith, and the Army of the TransMississippi (2005), “‘They Came to Butcher our People’: The Civil War in the West,” in Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (2006), and essays in Encyclopedia of Women in the American Civil War (2007) and Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (2008). He is currently writing a biography of Edmund Kirby Smith. BOBBY L. ROBERTS (Arkansas) is the director of the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is the author of several articles and chapters on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi and, with Carl Moneyhon, coauthored Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War (1987), Portraits of Conflict : A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War (1990), Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War (1993), and Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Texas in the Civil War (1998). The two are also coeditors of five additional volumes in the series that are devoted to Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina , South Carolina, and Tennessee. STUART W. SANDERS (Centre College) is Civil War heritage specialist and community services administrator for the Kentucky Historical Society. He is the former executive director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association and has written for numerous publications, including The U.S. Encyclopedia of Military History, Civil War History, Civil War Times Illustrated, Military History Quarterly, America’s Civil War, the Journal of America’s Military Past, Blue & Gray Magazine, Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil...

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