Dr. John M. Coski retired recently after working 33 years as historian and director of library, research, and publications at The Museum of the Confederacy and its successor, the American Civil War Museum. He is the author of Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron (Savas, 1996) and The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem (Harvard University Press, 2005), and is now writing a biography of Hunter Davidson. Dr. Coski received the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History.