William R. Scaife has taught at Emory University, and is a retired architect with more than 40 years experience in architecture and engineering. He is a widely respected Civil War historian with numerous publications and has served as consultant to or member of many organizations of history, national parks, and history magazines.William H. Bragg teaches history at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, and is the author of two previous books on the Civil War published by Mercer.