Episodes

Col. Matt Spruill, author of The US Army War College Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga and many others.

Brian James Egen, co-author of Michigan at Antietam: The Wolverine State's Sacrifice on America's Bloodiest Day.

Nancy Dane, Sarah Campbell: Tales of a Civil War Orphan.

Nick K. Adams, editor of My Dear Wife and Children: Civil War Letters from a 2nd Minnesota Volunteer.

Christian Samito: Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment

Wade Sokolosky, "To Prepare for Sherman's Coming": The Battle of Wise's Forks, March 1865.

Thomas Heard Robertson, Jr., Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865.

Betty Brennan: Exhibit Designs: The Lincoln Heritage Museum

J. Matthew Gallman, Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front .

Daniel T. Davis, co-author of Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 .

Kenneth A. Griffiths, author of Seven Days in July: A Historic Account of the Battle of Atlanta , combines historical research with imagined dialogue to create vivid pictures of Civil War events.

Jonathan W. White, Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln .

Kent Masterson Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign . Mr. Brown is also the principal of the Witnessing History LLC film production company.

Michael Schein, John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away .

Richard Sommers, Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg, The Battles of Chaffin's Bluff and Poplar Spring Church, September 29 - October 2, 1864 .

Phillip Greenwalt, Calamity in Carolina

John Hennessy, National Park Service Battlefields

Brian Jordan, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War .

Tom Parson, Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo Harrisburg, Mississippi, June to July 1864.

Matt Hulbert, The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History Memory, and Myth .

Adam Dean, An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era .

John J. Fox III, Stuart's Finest Hour: The Ride Around McClellan, June 1862 .

Justin S. Solonick: Engineering Victory: The Union Siege of Vicksburg

Julianne and David Mehegan, editors of Record of a Soldier in the Late War: The Confederate Memoir of John Wesley Bone.