Lance J. Herdegen is the author of several books. His book The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Blackhats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter received the Iron Brigade Association Award and his study Those Damned Black Hats: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign won the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award for Battle/Operational history. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Harry S. Truman Award given by the Kansas City Civil War Round Table and the 2016 Nevins-Freeman Award given by the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. Herdegen served as Chair of the Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial, was the former Director of the Institute for Civil War Studies at Carroll University, and worked as historical consultant for the Civil War Museum of the Upper Middle West at Kenosha, Wisconsin. Herdegen had a long career as a journalist with the United Press International (UPI) news wire service and was recently inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame. He lives in the town of Spring Prairie, Walworth County, Wisconsin.