JAMES MARTEN is professor of history at Marquette University and past President of the Society of Civil War Historians. He has written or edited a number of books on the sectional conflict, including The Children's Civil War (1998); Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front (2003); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011); Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (2012); and America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014).