Brian D. McKnight

Brian D. McKnight, professor of history at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, is the author of Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia and Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia.


Barton A. Myers is an associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University.He is the author of Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 and Rebels Against the Confederate: North Carolina's Unionists.