Steven E. Woodworth is professor of history at Texas Christian University and author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-seven books. He is a two-time winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York Civil War Round Table, a two-time finalist for the Peter Seaborg Award of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, and a winner of the Grady McWhiney Award of the Dallas Civil War Round Table for lifetime contribution to the study of Civil War history. He is the author, most recently, of Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War (2010).