Gordon C. Rhea is also the author of The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5--6, 1864; To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13--25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award; Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26--June 3, 1864, winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize, and Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.