Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor emeritus of history at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi, among other publications, and his honors include the Charles L. Dufour Award for outstanding achievements in preserving the heritage of the American Civil War.
Thomas E. Schott is a retired historian of the Air Force and US Special Operations Command. Besides the American Civil War, he has edited and published work in various fields, including baseball, theology, and poetry. His biography Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia won the Jefferson Davis Award for Best Book on the Confederacy.
