Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812
Ralph Eshelman was co-director of the Patuxent River Cultural Resource Survey, which discovered and partially excavated a War of 1812 vessel from the U.S. Chesapeake Flotilla. He conducted a holistic inventory of War of 1812 sites in Maryland for the National Park Service's National Battlefield Protection Program and has published four books on the War of 1812. Eshelman was designated "Honorary Colonel of the Fort McHenry Guard" by the National Park Service in 2009. He currently serves as a consultant to the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. Eshelman has visited every known War of 1812 site in the Chesapeake Bay region and is considered among the leading experts on this resource base.Scott S. Sheads has served as a ranger-historian and historic weapons officer at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore since 1979. Scott served as a co-historian for the Smithsonian Institution's  "Saving the Star-Spangled Banner Project" and for the National Park Service's "The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail" feasibility study. He has published several books on the War of 1812 and the Civil War and has authored numerous journal articles for theMaryland Historical Magazine. Scott's most recent publication isThe Chesapeake Campaigns, 1813-1815: Middle Ground of the War of 1812(Osprey Publications, Ltd., 2013).