Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) was editor of the Richmond News Leader and a major American biographer. He was the author of R.E. Lee, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1934, Lee's Lieutenants, and George Washington, for which he was posthumously awarded a second Pulitzer Prize. Grady McWhiney is Lyndon Baines Johnson Professor of American History at Texas Christian University, coauthor of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics of the Southern Heritage, and author of Southerners and Other Americans and Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat.
