Divided Loyalties: A Revolutionary War Fifer's Story
Historian and writer Phyllis Hall Haislip, Ph.D., has written extensively on Virginia history.  Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, Parent’s Magazine, Virginia Cavalcade, History Today, and in two anthologies. She is the author of two middle grade novels, Lottie’s Courage: A Contraband Slave’s Story, and Anybody’s Hero: The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys; and a non-fiction book for children and adults, Marching in Time: The Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps. Lottie’s Courage has been nominated for the Beacon of Freedom Award and has been chosen for the Battle of the Books, a reading program in more than one hundred schools in Tidewater, Virginia. Originally from Star Lake, New York, she is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, University of Illinois, and Columbia University. Dr. Haislip makes her home in Williamsburg, Virginia.