Michael B. Ballard (1946-2016) was an archivist at Mississippi State University and is author of many books, including Civil War Mississippi: A Guide; A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy; and, with David Muench, Landscapes of Battle: The Civil War.
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