Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction -- James M. McPherson
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About The Author

JAMES M. McPHERSON is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962. He was born in Valley City, North Dakota, in 1936. He received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958 and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Seaver Institute Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1982, he was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College, London

A specialist in Civil War and Reconstruction history and in the history of race relations, McPherson is the author of:

• The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1964)
• The Negro's Civil War (1965)
• Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War (1968)
• The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (1975)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
• Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1991)
• What They Fougbt For,1861-1865 (1994)
• Drawn With the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War(1996)
• and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997).