He graduated from Georgia Southern University with a B.B.A. in Business Management and received his Juris Doctor degree from Mercer University. In 2013 his book, The Battle of Peach Tree Creek, was published by Mercer University Press, and is a study of the fighting in what are today the Atlanta suburbs. He recently completed his second book, To the Gates of Atlanta, expected to be released in 2015 by Mercer University Press.