Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where she has taught since 1992. Leonard is the author of three books on the Civil War era: Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (Norton, 1994); All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (Norton, 1999); and Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (Norton, 2004). She is currently completing a fourth book, dealing with black soldiers in the U. S. army between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Indian Wars, and is also under contract to write the biography of Joseph Holt, Lincoln’s judge advocate general. And she is the proud mother of two wonderful sons, Anthony (14) and Joseph (12).