Edwin C. Bearss is one of America’s foremost Civil War historians. Ed served as the chief historian for the National Park Service for more than a decade before becoming the director’s special assistant for military sites. He has helped recover a lost Union gunboat; located two long-forgotten Confederate forts; and conducted detailed field studies in Vicksburg, on battlegrounds near Richmond, and at Eisenhower’s Farm at Gettysburg. The author of the National Geographic book Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War, Ed has received numerous awards in history and battlefield preservation. In 1990, he was featured on Ken Burns’ acclaimed PBS series The Civil War.