Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor of history emeritus at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi, among other publications, and his honors include the 2013 Nevins-Freeman Award for the "advancement of American Civil War scholarship and support for the Round Table movement."

Thomas E. Schott worked as a historian for the Department of Defense. He is the author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography, which won the Jefferson Davis Award. He is coeditor and contributor with Lawrence Hewitt of Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams, as well as several volumes of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater and Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi.