Patrick Schroeder is the historian at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, and has written or edited and published more than twenty Civil War—related titles. Among the works he has authored are Thirty Myths About Lee's Surrender (2002); More Myths About Lee's Surrender (1996); The Confederate Cemetery At Appomattox (1999); The Pennsylvania Bucktails: A Photographic History of the 42nd, 149th, 150th Pennsylvania Regiments (2001); and We Came To Fight: The History of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Duryee's Zouaves, 1863—1865 (1998)