Paul A. Cimbala is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller, he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction. Randall M. Miller is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, religion, and politics. Among his Civil War-related books are, as co-editor, Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation; and Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints.