William Kerrigan is a professor of history at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. For twenty years he has been leading Civil War study tours for college students to West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and he teaches courses on the American Civil War, the early national and antebellum United States, and American environmental history. In addition to West Virginia's War, he is the author of Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History.