Peter C. Vermilyea teaches history at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, Connecticut, and at Western Connecticut State University. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he is the director of the student scholarship program at his alma mater's Civil War Institute. He is the author or editor of three books and more than a dozen articles and maintains the Hidden in Plain Sight blog, www.hiddeninplainsightblog.com. He lives in Litchfield with his wife and two sons.