KATHRYN J. SHIVELY is the author of Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia, which won the 2014 Wiley-Silver Prize for best first book in Civil War history. With Caroline E. Janney, Shively recently edited The Second Manassas Campaign for the prestigious series, Military Campaigns of the Civil War. Shively's academic and public history work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University. An associate professor of Civil War and Reconstruction history at Virginia Commonwealth University, they enjoy giving tours of the Virginia-area battlefields to their students.