Phil Leigh

For reasons that I cannot explain I've been interested in the Civil War since I was about 11 years old.

Since 2012 I've written twenty-four articles for the New York Times Disunion series, which was a section of the online newspaper that commemorates the War's Sesquicentennial.

In May of 2013 my first Civil War book was released by Westholme Publishing who distributes through the University of Chicago Press. It is an annotated and illustrated version of the memoirs of Confederate Private Sam Watkins entailed Co. Aytch which is rebel vernacular for "Company H". Civil War News published a review of it here.

Westholme released my second book in May 2014. It is about intersectional trade during the Civil War and is entitled Trading with the Enemy. The book is reviewed at Civil War Books and Authors here. It is also reviewed at Civil War Librarian here. LSU Libraries: Civil War Book Review published a review of it here.

My third Civil War book, Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversieswas published in May 2015 and my fourth book, The Confederacy at Flood Tide, will be released in May, 2016.

December, 2015