Joe Owen is a National Park Ranger at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park in Johnson City, Texas. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Secondary Education from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Joe co-authored Texans at Gettysburg, Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade and Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16–17, 1862. He is an associate member of Hood’s Texas Brigade (Reactivated), Friends of Gettysburg Foundation, the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, and the Austin, Texas Civil War Round Table. A United States Navy Veteran, Joe and his wife currently reside in Blanco, Texas.
Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief of Emerging Civil War. He is a writing professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University and the historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield. He has authored or co-authored more than two dozen books on the Civil War.