Earl J. Hess is Emeritus Professor of History at Lincoln Memorial University, USA. He is the author or editor of twenty-six books on Civil War history. They include Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare (2023) and Animal Histories of the Civil War Era (2022). Hess's study of Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness (2015), received the Tom Watson Brown Book Award of the Society of Civil War Historians.