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Mark H. Danley currently serves as Catalog Librarian/Authority Specialist, University of Memphis Libraries; he earned his Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University, his dissertation was "The Theory and Practice of Strategy in the Eighteenth-Century British Army". He also holds an M.L.I.S. degree from Louisiana State University, an M.A. in history from Virginia Tech and a B.A. in history from the University of Richmond. He has previously worked as an archivist and special collections cataloger, doing contract work for the Jackson Barracks Military Library, New Orleans, Louisiana and was formerly Library Curator for the U.S. Cavalry Association Library, Fort Riley, Kansas. Earlier Mark served as a Historical Interpreter, Yorktown Victory Center Museum of the American Revolution where he developed and presented programs on early American history to museum visitors. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Warfare; Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army; and attended the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History. Mark regularly presents papers on various topics related to the history of strategic thought and military reading in eighteenth-century Britain. Papers presented at various meetings of the Society for Military History include "Classical Military Thought and Amphibious Strategy in the Eighteenth-Century British Army"; "British Strategy and the Early Histories of the War of the Spanish Succession"; "Grand Strategy, Strategy, and Operational Art in the British Campaigns in Germany during the Seven Years' War" and others. At the 2002 Banastre Tarleton Symposium he presented a lecture “Tarleton's Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 and the Eighteenth-Century British Military-Literary World". His current project is a collection of essays on the Seven Years’ War, tentatively titled The Seven Years' War: Global Perspectives, co-edited with Patrick J. Speelman and under contract with Brill Academic Publishers, projected publication 2009 [in addition to co-editing volume, he will also contribute an essay "The British Press during the Seven Years' War"]. He has also published on the technical aspects of cataloging eighteenth-century military works, and on the naval history of the Korean War.
Charles B. Baxley earned a B.A. and J.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is a practicing attorney in Lugoff, SC, and is the publisher and editor of the magazine, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Charles has served as president of the Kershaw County Historical Society, numerous local civic and charitable organizations, a USAF reserve officer, a Municipal Judge, adjunct professor of law, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kershaw County public school system. Charles likes to "put the action on the ground" and has served as a planner, host, and tour guide at the Tarleton, Camden Campaign, Thomas Sumter, Nathanael Greene, and the Eutaw Springs Symposia, for US Army staff rides, and other tours of Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War sites. He is a co-founder of the Southern Campaigns Roundtable, Corps of Discovery tour group, and the archaeological reconnaissance of the Hobkirk Hill battlefield (ARCHH, Inc.). Charles is the chair of the Battle of Camden battlefield preservation project advisory council. David P. Reuwer earned a J.D. from Pepperdine University and a B.A. from Towson University. David is an historian and practicing attorney, emphasizing real estate and historic preservation law. He was an adjunct professor of historic preservation at the College of Charleston. He was the lead investigator of the initial Eutaw Springs battlefield survey and is the coeditor of the magazine, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. David is an engaging Southern Campaigns battlefield tour guide who co-planned and led the Camden Campaign, Thomas Sumter and Nathanael Greene Symposia tours, for US Army staff rides, and other tours of Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War sites. He is the co-founder of the Southern Campaigns Roundtable, Corps of Discovery tour groups, and the archaeological reconnaissance of the Hobkirk's Hill battlefield (ARCHH, Inc.). Howard Burnham born in England claims American blood from his paternal grandfather, a much-traveled Californian mining engineer, who married a British girl in South Africa during the Boer War and is buried in Cannes, France, beside Admiral de Grasse, the man who made Yorktown possible. His great-uncle, Frederick R. Burnham, a scout and explorer, warrants an entry in the American Dictionary of National Biography. Burnham's namesake ancestor, First Lieutenant Howard Burnham, U.S.A., was killed on the first day at Chickamauga. Howard was educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and at University College in the University of Durham, where he took honors in Modern History. He has worked as an actor, educator and museum curator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He is the author of Grones Dictionary of Music or Misleading Lives of the Great Composers (Emerson Edition) and several more accurate booklets on theater history, published by London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Howard has been a Sir Evelyn Wrench Lecturer for the English-Speaking Union of the United States, touring nationwide. Howard's American Revolutionary War programs include Never Play Hockey With A Bishop: Lord Cornwallis in the South (which has played repeatedly at every major site associated with the earl's campaign,) and characterizations of Banastre Tarleton, Tom Paine, Horatio Gates, and Thomas Sumter. His companion piece to Lord Cornwallis: Thirty Wagons and a Wine Cellar: Johnny Burgoyne and Saratoga plays annually at Bunker Hill, Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. He has a War of 1812 twelve program: The British kept a-running: Sir John Lambert on Andy Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. His Civil War one-man show, The Lion, the Eagle and Dixie: A British Perspective on the War between the States as seen by the Artist-Journalist, Frank Vizetelly, has played at Shiloh Military Park, the SC State Museum and Manassas Battlefield. He is currently preparing characterizations of Lord Rawdon for Ninety-Six, and the Duke of Wellington for the State Museum's up-coming Napoleon exhibit. Ken Bloom - Ken
Bloom has given solo concerts all over North America including appearances
at many major Folk Festivals and clubs in the U.S. and Canada. In the
past he has been a regular performer at the Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton,
Owen Sound, Philadelphia, and Mariposa Festivals as well as appearing
in major venues across the country and appearances on "A Prairie
Home Companion." These programs include the traditional music of
this country as well as Celtic and Eastern European selections. Ken
usually uses Concert zither, Northumbrian-smallpipes, guitar, clarinet,
bowed dulcimer, and Minstrel banjo, and he will often include other
instruments and traditions as well. For the last 22 years, Ken has been
building a wide range of instruments for people. Ken also participates
in 18th century living history events, providing period music on period
instruments, as well as acting as sergeant for the Royal Highland Emigrants,
84th Foote. He has presented these programs at National battlefields,
living history sites, Highland Games, and schools all over North and
South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Many of these presentations
focus on the role of Scottish Highlanders in the 18th century. This
interest in history has led Ken to go back and reconstruct many of the
instruments of the time and research the music that would have been
played on them. This includes the gourd banjo and a detailed study of
early antecedents of the mountain dulcimer. Ken's bowed dulcimer is
the result of some of these studies.
Eugene Hough is a resident of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and North Augusta, South Carolina. He is participant with the 4th Continental Light Dragoons and the 3rd Continental Light Dragoon in South Carolina. Gene is President of Heritage Guild Works ("HGW") which provides preservation, restoration, stabilization, and cleaning of historic monuments, markers, statuary and cemeteries. Gene holds degrees from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, a masters in planning from Temple University and a graduate diploma from Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden. Through his active involvement as a participant in several colonial light horse units, he has had a unique opportunity to incorporate his work and re-enacting involvement in activities in both the Northern and Southern campaigns of the American Revolution." Rory T. Cornish - Chair of the Department of History at Winthrop University. Born in London, he was educated at the University of East Anglia, Davidson College, and University College London where he completed his PhD under Professor Ian R. Christie, FBA. The author of two biographies, he has been a contributor to other publications including The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The International Encyclopedia of Military History, and The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Professor Cornish is presently working on a study of Lord Shelburne and America, 1763-1783.
Robert A. Selig
is a historical consultant who received his PhD in history from the
Universität Würzburg in Germany. He has taught at colleges and universities
in the mid-west, most recently at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
He has published a number of books, most recently Hussars
in Lebanon! A Connecticut Town and Lauzun's Legion during the
American Revolution, 1780-1781; 'En Avant' With Our French
Allies: Sites, Markers, and Monuments in Connecticut Commemorating
the Contributions of French Troops under the comte de Rochambeau to
the Achievement of American Independence, 1780 to 1782 as well
as a translation of A Treatise on Partisan Warfare by Johann
von Ewald, introduction and annotation by Robert A. Selig and David
Curtis Skaggs. Bob has also published many articles in American and
German scholarly and popular history magazines such as the William
and Mary Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yearbook of
the Society for German-American Studies, Journal of Caribbean
History, American Heritage, Naval History, Military
History Quarterly, Colonial Williamsburg, German Life,
Damals, and the Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical
Association. He is a specialist on the role of French forces under
the comte de Rochambeau during the American Revolution and currently
serves as project historian to the National Park Service for the Washington-Rochambeau
Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Project. As part of this
project he has researched and written historical and architectural site
surveys and resource inventories on the W3R for the States of Connecticut,
New York, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is
currently conducting a Revolutionary War era road and transportation
survey in the Commonwealth of Virginia. These reports either already
are (CT, NY and DE) or will soon be available on the internet. For more information call Gloria Beitler at South Carolina Historical Society 843-723-3225 ext. 11 or see the conference postings on http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/2007CavConf/2007Cavalry.html.
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Gregory
J. W. Urwin serves as a professor of history and associate director
of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University
in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame
and taught at Saint of the Plains College in Dodge City, Kansas, and
the University of Central Arkansas before coming to Temple. Urwin is
the author of: Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General
George Armstrong Custer; The United States Cavalry: An Illustrated
History, 1776-1944; The United States Infantry: An Illustrated
History, 1775-1918; Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island;
and his most recent release Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities
and Reprisals in the Civil War. Urwin is currently writing Victory
in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders as Prisoners of War, 1941-1945.
After that, he plans to write a social history of Lord Charles Cornwallis'
1781 Virginia Campaign. Facing Fearful Odds, Urwin's first Wake
Island book, won the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award from the Marine
Corps Heritage Foundation as the "outstanding non-fiction book
published in 1998 pertinent to Marine Corps history." Urwin also
received the Harold L. Peterson Award from Eastern National Park and
Monument Association for the best scholarly article in military history
published in 1996. He has lectured at such distinguished venues as the
U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Army War College, American Philosophical Society,
and David Library of the American Revolution. Urwin is a Fellow of the
Company of Military Historians, an Academic Fellow of the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies, the general editor for the Campaigns and
Commanders Series from University of Oklahoma Press, and associate editor
of Military Chronicles magazine. Urwin has appeared in numerous
documentaries on the History Channel, A&E, PBS, and commercial television
(including Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific, The Last Days
of World War II, Washington: The Warrior, and Washington's
Generals). He also worked as a troop trainer and extra in the Civil
War epic film, Glory.
Lawrence
E. Babits, professor of maritime archaeology at East Carolina University,
is the author of A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens,
Cowpens Battlefield - A Walking Guide, and articles in Documentary
Archaeology in the New World, Archaeology, and the Maryland
Historical Magazine. Larry serves as senior advisor to the Hobkirk's
Hill Battlefield Archaeology Project (ARCHH, Inc.) and currently preparing
monographs on the Battles at Guilford Courthouse, Hobkirk's Hill and
Eutaw Springs with Josh Howard and Matt Brenckle. Larry along with Josh
Howard wrote "Fortitude and Forbearance" - the North Carolina
Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.
John
M. Hutchins graduated from the University of Colorado and from the
University of Colorado School of Law. John served as a Northglenn, Colorado,
City Council member. John served as a captain in the U.S. Army with
the First Cavalry Division, as a Judge Advocate and defense counsel.
Upon his return to Colorado, John was an Assistant Colorado Attorney
General and with the federal government since 1990. John retired as
a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. John has been a Civil War reenactor
in Texas, a past member of the Colorado Civil War Roundtable, and a
long-time member of the Colorado Historical Society. John has been a
member of the Denver Posse of Westerners, a branch of Westerners International,
since 1983. His library has approximately 30,000 books, maps and other
items, ranging from the history of New Zealand to World War I aviation.
John received a U.S. Army historical writing award in 1988 for a paper
on the 1655 Battle of the Severn in Colonial Maryland. Two of his published
papers presented to the Denver Westerners, received awards from Westerners
International for the best papers presented in their respective years.
He has other papers published, on topics ranging from Zebulon Pike to
the Spanish American War. John is now working on a history of the cavalry
in the American Revolution.
Patrick
J. O'Kelley is a decorated veteran of the 82nd Airborne
Division, the 3rd Ranger Battalion and the 5th
Special Forces Group. He served in combat on the island of Grenada and
in Desert Storm, being awarded a Bronze Star and a "V" device
for valor. He is a military historian and has been a Revolutionary War
reenactor for 30 years. His battlefield experience allows him to analyze
events from the War for American Independence in a way that most historians
will never know. He is the author of five books about the war in the
South during the American Revolution. His four volume series Nothing
but Blood and Slaughter has been called the most complete history
of the war in the South during the Revolution. Pat's monumental Unwaried
Patience and Fortitude is the transcription and annotation of Francis
Marion's orderly book from 1775 to 1782. He has worked with several
theatrical and television productions about the Revolution, including
"The Patriot" and the History Channel's "Revolutionary
War" series. He has also been awarded both the Bronze and Silver
Citizenship Medals by the Sons of the American Revolution for his contributions
to the history of the Revolutionary War in the South. He is currently
a Junior ROTC instructor at Lee County High School in Sanford, North
Carolina. He was listed in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers"
in 2005 and was selected as one of the National Honor Roll's Outstanding
American Teachers in 2006.
Lee
F. McGee is a physician and historian who published insightful analysis
on the Battle of Hammond's Old Store, Lt. Col. William Washington's
capture of Rugeley's Fort, and the cavalry actions at Eutaw Springs
and Hobkirk's Hill. Lee presented his study of Lt. Col. William Washington's
actions on the battlefield of Eutaw Springs at the Eutaw Springs conference.
Charles
F. Price makes his home in the Western North Carolina mountains
near Burnsville where he writes historical fiction and teaches creative
writing. His published works are Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War;
Freedom's Altar; The Cock's Spur; and Where the Water-Dogs
Laughed. Charles' new novel, Nor the Battle to the Strong: A
Novel of the American Revolution in the South, is forthcoming. The
book deals in part with cavalry operations during Maj. Gen. Nathanael
Greene's campaign in South Carolina from June through September 1781,
including the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
Jim Piecuch received
his Ph.D. in history from the College of William and Mary. His dissertation,
"Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves and the American
Revolution in the Deep South," is the first study of the Southern
Campaigns undertaken from the viewpoint of the British and their supporters
has been selected for publication. He is also the author of five articles
and book chapters on colonial and revolutionary history, and contributed
articles to several historical encyclopedias. Jim has written a compendium
of documents: The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History,
and a monograph, The Battle of the Waxhaws: Tarleton and the Myth
of Buford's Massacre. He is working on a field guide to the Battle
of Eutaw Springs. He serves as an assistant history professor at Kennesaw
State University in Georgia.
Todd
Braisted is the founder of 
Michael
C. Scoggins is the staff historian for the Culture & Heritage
Museums (CHM) in York County, South Carolina, and is research director
of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute at the McCelvey Center in
York, SC. He has degrees in science, engineering technology and history
from the University of South Carolina, York Technical College and Winthrop
University, and was employed as an electronics engineer for twenty years
before changing careers to pursue his interest in military and Southern
history. He is the author of The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat
and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780,
winner of the 2006 Award of Merit from the Confederation of South Carolina
Local Historical Societies, and Relentless Fury: The Revolutionary
War in the Southern Piedmont. He also edited and annotated Reflections
of Rebellion: Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution
and is co-author with Dr. Bobby G. Moss of the highly acclaimed African-American
Patriots in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution and
African-American Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the American
Revolution. Scoggins has contributed articles to numerous publications
and journals including The South Carolina Encyclopedia; Military
Collector and Historian; War, Literature and the Arts; and
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. He also writes
a monthly history column for YC Magazine, edits the York County
Genealogical and Historical Society Quarterly, and is a frequent
lecturer on topics of local and regional history. Scoggins is a member
of the Company of Military Historians, the Brigade of the American Revolution,
the Scotch-Irish Society of the USA, the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
the York County Genealogical and Historical Society, the Amateur Radio
Relay League, and is a district representative for the Confederation
of South Carolina Local Historical Societies.
Scott
Miskimon is an attorney practicing in Raleigh, North Carolina and
a partner in the firm of Smith Anderson. He is the co-author of the
legal treatise North Carolina Contract Law and is currently researching
and writing a book about the Battle of the Waxhaws. Scott earned his
JD from UNC-Chapel Hill and served on the Board of Editors of the North
Carolina Law Review. Scott received his Bachelor of Journalism degree
from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and worked
as a television photojournalist for seven years prior to law school.
Scott has contributed two excellent articles to Southern Campaigns
of the American Revolution.
Daniel
Murphy lives in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina where
he works as a lighting director in film and television. An avid horseman
and ten year veteran of Revolutionary War reenacting, Dan has also portrayed
horse soldiers of that other war, sometimes referred to in the south
as "the recent unpleasantness". Along the way, he has authored articles
for both Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution and
America's Civil War magazine - none of which seem to impress his horses.