Timothy R. Snyder graduated with an MA degree in history from Shippensburg (PA) University in 1999. He is the author of Trembling in the Balance: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal during the Civil War (Blue Mustang Press, 2011) and articles that have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, and newsletters. On his paternal side of the family, two cousins served in the Union army, one of whom was killed at Petersburg, VA, on April 2, 1865, one week before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. On his maternal side, the author is second cousin of Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade, the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. His research interests concern Maryland’s political and military history during the secession crisis and Civil War, and loyalty and allegiance in the border states. He lives in Hagerstown, MD.