About the Author

Orville Vernon Burton is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include ""A Gentleman and an Officer"": A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War.

Reviews

A highly quantified, computerized, and methodologically sophisticated study."New York Review of Books"

"A highly quantified, computerized, and methodologically sophisticated study."New York Review of Books""