Jack Davis is Professor of History and Director of Programs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He served as the principal historical consultant to the A. & E. television series, Civil War Journal and has authored or edited many books including ‘A Government of Our Own’: The Making of the Confederacy, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, and Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America.

Ed Bearss, historian emeritus of the National Park Service, is the most well known battlefield guide in America and leads military history tours year-around of the Civil War, American Revolution, American West, and World War I and World War II in Europe. He is acclaimed as one of the stars of Ken Burns's award-winning PBS series, The Civil War. In 1956, he helped locate and raise the ironclad gunboat Cairo, one of the most significant artifacts of the Civil War.

Joseph Glatthaar is the Alan Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many books including The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaignss. His latest book is General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse.

Harold Holzer is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author, co-author or editor of 41 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. His most recent titles are The New York Times Complete Civil War; Lincoln on War; Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons; and Hearts Touched By Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. His many awards include the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2008.

Eric Jacobson is the Director of Operations of the Battle of Franklin Trust and the author of For Cause and Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, and his latest book, Baptism of Fire.

Keith Kehlbeck is executive director of Distinguished Restaurants of North America and is a writer with extensive experience in marketing, speechwriting, annual reports and historic preservation. He is the author of Gone to God: A Civil War Family’s Ultimate Sacrifice.

Bob Krick, retired Chief Historian at Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania National Milirty Park, is widely regarded as the leading authority on the Army of Northern Virginia.

John Marszelak is the Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association & Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Papers project, under the stewardship of Mississippi State University. He is the author of several books including Sherman, A Soldier’s Passion for Order; and Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.

Bud Robertson recently retired as Alumni Distinguished Professor in History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of many books including Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend; General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior; and Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen.

Charles Roland is widely regarded as the "Dean of American Civil War Historians." He is the author of many books including Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics; An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War; My Odyssey through History: Memoirs of War and Academe and, most recently, History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History.

Tim Smith is a leading tour guide of the battle of Shiloh and of the siege and battle of Corinth. He is the author of several books including Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front; The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield; The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks; and most recently Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation.

Jeff Wert is the author of many books including Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, CSA and the Iron Brigade, USA; Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart; The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac; and the soon to be released A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863.

Frank Williams recently retired as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He is the chairman of the Lincoln Forum, and the president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. He is the author or co-author of a dozen books including Judging Lincoln, a collection of his essays, and The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (with Harold Holzer and Edna Greene Medford.)