Days of Destruction Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston

W. Eric Emerson is the director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia and the state historic preservation officer. He is the author of Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War, coeditor of Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden, and editor of Palmetto Profiles: The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame

Karen Stokes is an archivist with the South Carolina Historical Society. She is the author of historical fiction and nonfiction that relates to South Carolina in the Confederacy and, along with W. Eric Emerson, has coedited two collections of wartime correspondence published by the University of South Carolina Press: Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden.