He is the author of Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) as well as The Seven Days' Battles: The War Begins Anew (Praeger, 2012). Peter Carmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute and the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and is currently at work on The War for the Common Soldier, slated for release with the University of North Carolina Press in 2012.