Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953)

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1. Douglas Southall Freeman

   Author of Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Lee, R.E. Lee : a biography

2. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville

3. Bruce Catton

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

4. Robert U. Johnson

   Author of Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War - Volume III, Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War - Volume II, Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War - Volume IV

5. Peter Cozzens

   Author of This terrible sound: the battle of Chickamauga, No Better Place to Die: THE BATTLE OF STONES RIVER (Civil War Trilogy), The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (Civil War Trilogy)

6. Shelby Foote

   Author of The Civil War: A Narrative, The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian

7. Gary W. Gallagher

   Author of The Confederate War, The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), Lee and His Generals in War and Memory

8. Gordon C. Rhea

   Author of The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864, To the North Anna River

9. 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

10. Harry W. Pfanz

    Author of Gettysburg - The Second Day, Gettysburg - Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg - The First Day

11. Thomas Lawrence Connelly

    Author of The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society, Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennesse, 1862-1865, Army of the heartland : The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862

12. William C. Davis

    Author of Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour

13. Edward Porter Alexander

    Author of Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs Of A Confederate

14. Noah Andre Trudeau

    Author of Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865

15. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln, We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

16. Steven E. Woodworth

    Author of Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West

17. Jeffry D. Wert

    Author of General James Longstreet; the Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, Gettysburg, Day Three

18. Bell Irvin Wiley

    Author of The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union

19. James Robertson

    Author of General A.P. Hill, The Stonewall Brigade

20. Grady McWhiney

    Author of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat (Volume 1)