New Perspectives on the Civil War Myths and Realities of the National Conflict

John Y. Simon is editor of the acclaimed Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, twenty volumes of which have been published since 1967. He is professor of history at Southern Illinois University and a founder and past president of the Association for Documentary Editing. Michael E. Stevens is state historian and director of public history at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. His most recent book is As If It Were Glory: Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments.