DAVID S. HEIDLER is an award-winning historian on the faculty of Colorado State University, Pueblo. He is co-author with Jeanne T. Heidler of Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History; Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War; Encyclopedia of the War of 1812; Manifest Destiny; The War of 1812; and Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. Dr. Heidler is also co-editor with Jeanne T. Heidler of the series Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime and American Soldiers' Lives.