Mary Chesnut (1823–1886)

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1. Bruce Catton

   Author of A stillness at Appomattox, Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road

2. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Chancellorsville, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon

3. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

4. Bell Irvin Wiley

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5. Mary Chesnut

   Author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, A Diary From Dixie, The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (A Galaxy Book)

6. Jeffry D. Wert

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7. Eric Foner

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8. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

   Author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

9. Shelby Foote

   Author of The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox

10. Gordon C. Rhea

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11. Elisha Hunt Rhodes

    Author of All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

12. Frances H. Kennedy

    Author of The Civil War Battlefield Guide

13. John J. Hennessy

    Author of Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

14. Margaret Leech

    Author of Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865

15. Sam R. Watkins

    Author of Co. Aytch, or, A Side Show of the Big Show

16. John F. Marszalek

    Author of Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order

17. Geoffrey C. Ward

    Author of The Civil War

18. David M. Potter

    Author of The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

19. Horace Porter

    Author of Campaigning with Grant

20. William S. McFeely

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