STEPHEN DAVIS is the author of Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions, A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 19, 1865, and What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta.

BILL HENDRICK has forty-four years reporting experience, including thirty with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, eight with The Associated Press, and several years with publications such as WebMD and Sky Magazine.