PAUL A. CIMBALA is professor of history at Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, NY. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870; The Freedmen’s Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War; and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction.
RANDALL M. MILLER is the William Dirk Warren ’50 Sesquicentennial Chair and professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation; and Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making. With Paul A. Cimbala he has edited several essay collections treating the Civil War and Reconstruction.