This first volume in the series contains transcripts of 37 Question and Answer sessions conducted over many years in the Civil War Forum on CompuServe. The guests are among the most prominent historians in their field, each with particular areas of expertise. Many of them signed on to discuss the research and writing of one of their (then) latest books, or to lend insights about the Park Service battlefields on which they have built their careers.
Here is a
list of the included guests, in alphabetical order, and a general idea of what they discussed:
Stacy Allen
(Shiloh); Edward Ayers (misc. Topics); Jean Baker (Mary Todd Lincoln); Ed
Bearss (misc. topics); Mark Bradley (Battle of Bentonville); Kent Masterson
Brown (Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg); Victoria Bynum (Free State of Jones);
Chris Calkins (Siege of Petersburg; Retreat to Appomattox); John Coski (Museum
of the Confederacy; the Battleflag); David Eicher (Civil War in Books); Michael
Fellman (Robert E. Lee; William T. Sherman); Gary W. Gallagher (Robert E. Lee,
etc.); D. Scott Hartwig (Gettysburg); John Hennessy (Second Manassas); Harold
Holzer (Abraham Lincoln); Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., (Battle of
Bentonville); Terry Jones (Campbell Jones, LA Tigers); John A. Marszalek
(William T. Sherman); William Marvel (Andersonville; CSS Alabama vs. USS
Kearsarge); Richard McMurry (War in the West); James M. McPherson ("Drawn
with the Sword"); Steve Meserve (Mosby's Confederacy); William C. Miller
(Jed Hotchkiss); Jim Morgan (Battle of Ball's Bluff); Michael Musick
(Researching at the National Archives); Alan T. Nolan (Robert E. Lee); James
Ogden (Battles of Chickamauga & Chattanooga); Harry Pfanz (Battle of
Gettysburg); Brian C. Pohanka (misc. topics); Gordon Rhea (Overland Campaign);
Gene Salecker (Sultana Disaster); John Simon (Ulysses S. Grant); Craig L.
Symonds (Joe Johnston; Pat Cleburne); Emory Thomas (Robert E. Lee); Jeffry Wert
(George Custer; James Longstreet); Terry Winschel (Vicksburg Campaign); Steven
E. Woodworth (Jeff Davis and his Generals).