A retired high school history teacher, John Michael Priest has been interested in Civil War history since an early age. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss praised Mike’s grassroots level of history and viewpoint and called him the “Ernie Pyle” of the Civil War soldier. Mike appeared on the Discovery Channel’s “Unsolved History: Pickett’s Charge” (2002), and has written extensively about the Civil War. His most recent book was Stand To It and Give Them Hell: Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 (2016). He and his wife live in Clear Spring, Maryland.