About the Author

Robert M. Dunkerly is a historian, award-winning author, and speaker who is actively involved in historic preservation and research. He works as a park ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park. Among his several books are three in the ECW Series: To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy, No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, and Embattled Capital: Richmond During the Civil War. He also blogs for Emerging Civil War and Emerging Revolutionary War Era (www.emergingcivilwar.com and www.emergingrevolutionarywar.org).