Mark Maloy is a historian currently working for the National Park Service in Virginia. He holds an undergraduate degree in History from the College of William and Mary and a graduate degree in History from George Mason University. He has worked at numerous public historic sites and archaeological digs for the past fifteen years. Among the sites he has worked at include the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, the Civil War Defenses of Washington, and Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial. He began his career with the Park Service at Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park in Charleston, South Carolina.  He has written numerous articles on the Civil War and is the author of two books on the Revolutionary War: Victory or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton and To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston