Chicago native John Horn majored in English and Latin at New College (Sarasota, Florida) and has practiced law around Chicago since graduating Columbia Law School in New York in 1976. In addition to many articles, he has written three other books about Petersburg, Virginia’s soldiers, and the siege of that city, and co-edited another. John’s previous book, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1861 (Savas Beatie) won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History. John is popular on the speaking circuit from coast to coast and has blogged at johnhorncivilwarauthor.blogspot.com since 2015. John’s wife and law partner hails from Richmond, Virginia, and they often visit relatives there.