Confederate Phoenix: The Css Virginia
R. Thomas Campbell has been studying and writing about the Confederate experience in the War Between the States for many years. He has published in Confederate Veteran, the magazine of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, of which he is a member, and also in the regional publications of that organization. Mr. Campbell is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a bachelor of science degree from Villanova University. He is currently preparing additional studies of the activities of the Confederate Navy.A Portsmouth, Virginia, native, Alan B. Flanders holds a PhD. in naval history and is a Fellow and member of the Senior Commons Room at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and holds a masters of arts in English Hollins College.  For the past 20 years, Flanders has written a weekly column, “Olde Towne Journal,” and has also been published by Naval Institute Proceedings, American Heritage, American History Illustrated, and Civil War Times.  He has written five other books on naval history.