Bill Gurley, "Yankee Bullets, Southern Blood: A Glimpse at Confederate Medical Care in the Trans-Mississippi Through the Illustrated Casebook of Dr. Henry Dye."

Bill J. Gurley, Ph.D. (University of Tennessee, 1989) is professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.  Gurley has been a student of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi for more than thirty years, and co-edited “I Acted from Principle:” The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi (University of Arkansas Press, 2002).  He is currently editing the illustrated casebook of Dr. Henry Dye, a Texas surgeon that served in the Trans-Mississippi, and preparing a book length study of Mosby Monroe Parsons and his Confederate Missouri division.

Prior to assuming his position as historian at the Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, S.C., Rick Hatcher was for many years the historian at the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.  A Richmond native, he is the co-author of Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. 

Lindberg has enjoyed a successful career based on his interests in Civil War and military history.  His positions include seasonal park ranger at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Republic, Missouri; Director of the Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, Pleasanton, Kansas; and Archivist for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.  He served as OPFOR Simulation Specialist for the Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and as Archivist for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Collection, U.S. Army Chemical School, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.  He is currently Curator of  Chemical Corps Museum at Fort Leonard Wood.  Lindberg is the co-author of Sterling Price’s Lieutenants: A Guide to the Officers and Organization of the Missouri State Guard, 1861-1865, a ground-breaking and indispensable reference work.  He is also the author or co-author of articles on the battles of Mine Creek, Baxter Springs, and Lone Jack.  He has an avid interest in 19th century photography, having amassed a collection of over 1500 photos.

Matthews is a military historian with the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He worked for sixteen years as a member of the World Class Opposing Force (OPFOR) for the Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, before joining CSI. He served as an Infantry enlisted man in the Regular Army from 1977 to 1981, a Cavalry officer in the US Army Reserve from 1983 to 1986, and an Armor officer in the Kansas Army National Guard from 1986 to 1991. Matthews is the author of CSI Press publications The Posse Comitatus Act and the United States Army: A Historical Perspective and Operation AL FAJR: A Study in Army and Marine Corps Joint Operations and The US Army on the Mexican Border: A Historical Perspective. His most recent publication, We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War, was mentioned in the Washington Post and Newsweek. He has coauthored numerous scholarly articles on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi, including “Shot All to Pieces: The Battle of Lone Jack,” “To Play a Bold Game: The Battle of Honey Springs,” and “Better Off in Hell: The Evolution of the Kansas Red Legs.” He is a frequent speaker at Civil War Roundtables, and he recently appeared on the History Channel as a historian for Bill Kurtis’ "Investigating History."  Matthews was the mayor of Ottawa, Kansas. Matthews is a military historian with the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Professor Whites came to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1989 to fill the position in U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Prior to that time she held a position in the history of the nineteenth century South and U.S. Women at Virginia Tech. Since being at Missouri, Professor Whites has taught classes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Missouri in the Civil War, Race, Class and Gender, Women in Missouri History, Women in the Nineteenth Century South, and the history of gender and sexuality in the United States. Professor Whites is the author of The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender and Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Making of the New South.  She is coeditor of Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence.  Her current research projects includes co-editing an anthology with Alecia Long, entitled, Occupied Women: Protection, Violation and the Sexual Politics of the Union Military and a book project, Civil War Women, which considers the experience of women in the Civil War through the lens of their correspondence with their men in the field