Michael R. Brasher is the award winning author of: - The Second Mississippi Infantry Regiment: An Introduction to the Full Annotated Roster (Kindle [Print Replica] and paperback) - The American Civil War: A Military Overview (Kindle and paperback) - The American Civil War: A Select Anthology of Battles, Campaigns, and Related Topics (Kindle and paperback) - "...To Knock Jos. Johnston": Sherman, Atlanta, and the Sinews of War - Grant Cuts Loose: Logistics and the Drive on Vicksburg - Vicksburg Redeemed: An Assessment of Confederate Combined Operations During the Baton Rouge Campaign of 1862 - Dooming the Confederacy: The Decisive Battle of Champion Hill - Star-Crossed: A Quantitative Reassessment of the Relative Combat Performance of the Army of Tennessee Compared to the Army of Northern Virginia Michael is also the great-grandson of Private Thomas Benton Weatherington, one of the 1,888 Confederate soldiers from northeast Mississippi that served in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. A lifelong Civil War buff, he grew up near the Shiloh battlefield in West Tennessee. He received his MA in Civil War Studies from American Military University. He also has degrees in Electrical Engineering and an MBA which he draws upon to help shape his unique approach to researching and writing Civil War history. As former president and co-founder of InfoConcepts, Inc., Michael was the co-developer of the American Civil War Regimental Information System and Epic Battles of the American Civil War software. He developed and maintained the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment website from 2002 until 2015 and now maintains a 2nd Mississippi blog on his new website. He is also writing a regimental history to be released in the near future. A retired Air Force veteran, Michael now resides in Huntsville, Alabama. For more information about Michael, visit his author page or his website: www.mrbrasher.com
