RICHARD F. MILLER is an independent scholar. He is the author of A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War (2005) and co-author (with Robert F. Mooney) of The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience (1994). Miller has written about the Massachusetts gentlemen of the Harvard Regiment in Historical Journal Of Massachusetts (2002) and the New England Quarterly (2002 and 2003), and has written on numerous other Civil War-related topics as well. A Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Miller is a graduate of Harvard and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.