About the Author

TERRENCE C. WINSCHEL is a twenty-one-year veteran of the National Park Service and has served at Gettysburg National Military Park, Fredericksburg National Military Park, Valley Forge National Historical Park, and is currently historian at the Vicksburg National Military Park. He is author of Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, The Corporal's Tale, and Alice Shirley and the Story of Wexford Lodge. He is also co-author of Vicksburg: A Self-Guiding Tour of the Battlefield.