His first book is Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. (University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 1572333146, $18.00 hardcover). He is currently working on Awash in the Storm: Tennessee in the Civil War Era, a study of the Volunteer State's traumatic experience during the period from c. 1848-1870 (also to be published by the University of Tennessee Press) and The Confederate Experience, a documents and essay reader to be published by Routledge Press.