Stuart W. Sanders

Stuart W. Sanders is the author of five books, "Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky's Largest Civil War Battle" (2012), "The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky" (2013), "Maney's Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville" (2014), "Murder on the Ohio Belle" (2020), and "Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence (November 2023). He is also the author of the longform essay "Lincoln's Confederate 'Little Sister:' Emilie Todd Helm." Sanders has contributed essays to several Civil War anthologies and has written for many magazines and journals, including "Civil War Times Illustrated," "America's Civil War," "MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History," "Civil War History," "Hallowed Ground," "Civil War Quarterly," "Blue & Gray," "Kentucky Humanities," "The Journal of America's Military Past," "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society," "Encyclopedia Virginia," and several other publications. He is the former executive director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association and currently works in the public history field in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In 2018, the James Harrod Trust awarded him with the Clay Lancaster Award for Historical Research and Writing.