Stephen W. Sears

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1. Stephen W. Sears

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

2. Bruce Catton

   Author of A stillness at Appomattox, Mr. Lincoln's Army, Grant Takes Command

3. 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)

4. Harry Turtledove

   Author of Worldwar: In the Balance, How Few Remain, The Great War: American Front

5. 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

6. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

7. Robert Cowley

   Author of What If? 2 : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

8. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

9. Jeffry D. Wert

   Author of General James Longstreet; the Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, Gettysburg, Day Three, From Winchester to Cedar Creek

10. Noah Andre Trudeau

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

11. Harry W. Pfanz

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

12. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram

13. Shelby Foote

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

14. Wiley Sword

    Author of Embrace an Angry Wind, Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863, Shiloh: Bloody April

15. Ernest B. Furgurson

    Author of Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave, Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864

16. William C. Davis

    Author of Brother Against Brother: The War Begins, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour, Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg

17. Gary W. Gallagher

    Author of The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

18. Niall Ferguson

    Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, The Pity of War, Virtual History

19. Douglas Southall Freeman

    Author of Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Lee, Lee's Lieutenants : A Study In Command, Volume 1

20. Steven E. Woodworth

    Author of Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865, A Scythe of Fire: A Civil War Story of the Eighth Georgia Infantry Regiment, The Art of Command in the Civil War