Charles F. Price is the author of the Hiwassee series, four works of historical fiction set in his native western North Carolina which comprise a single narrative cycle interweaving the private history of his 19th-century ancestors with the public history of the southern Appalachians. Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War, Freedom’s Altar won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award as the best fiction of 1999 written by a North Carolina author. The Cock’s Spur received an Independent Publisher Book Award as one of the Ten Outstanding Books of 2001 and Price was named Story Teller of the Year; it also won the Historical Fiction Award of the North Carolina Society of Historians. Where the Water-Dogs Laughed, was released in 2003; set in 1898 and rounds out the quartet. It also garnered the Society of Historians’ award, was a nominee for a second Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and was a first finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award for historical fiction that year. Price has been a Washington lobbyist, management consultant, urban planner and journalist. In 1995, after working for 19 years in the nation’s capital, he retired to his beloved North Carolina mountains to devote full time to writing. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree in History and Political Science from High Point University. His novel on Greene's 1781 South Carolina campaign, Nor the Battle to the Strong, will be published in 2007.

Dr. Robert M. Calhoon has been a professor of History at University of North Carolina Greensboro since 1974, having received a Ph.D. in history from Western Reserve University in 1964. He is the author of The Loyalist Perception (1989) and The Loyalists in Revolutionary America (1973); Religion in the American Revolution in North Carolina; Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South; The Loyalists Perception and Other Essays; Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American World (1660-1801); and numerous scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries.

Jim McIntyre was a presenter at our 2004 Camden Battle Campaign Symposium. An Instructor in History at Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois, Jim received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Temple University and a Master of Arts in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of “Bringing Order to Chaos: Military Works of the Eighteenth Century Considered as Enlightenment Literature” and other articles published in The Seven Years War Association Journal (2004); a contributor to Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution; and a member of the Society for Military History and Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.

Dr. Jim Piecuch received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary. His dissertation, "Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves and the American Revolution in the Deep South," is the first study of the Southern Campaign undertaken from the viewpoint of the British and their supporters. He is also the author of five articles and book chapters on colonial and revolutionary history, and contributed articles to several historical encyclopedias. Jim has written a compendium on accounts on the Battle of Camden and accepted an appointment as an assistant history professor at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.

Dr. Gregory D. Massey earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1992. He is the author of John Laurens and the American Revolution (2000) for which received the American Revolution Round Table of New York’s Book Award in 2001. Greg is Professor of History, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee.

Dr. Lawrence E. Babits, professor of maritime archaeology at East Carolina University, is the author of A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (1998), Cowpens Battlefield - A Walking Guide (1993), and articles in Documentary Archaeology in the New World, Archaeology, and the Maryland Historical Magazine. Larry serves as senior advisor to the Hobkirk’s Hill Battlefield Archaeology Project (ARCHH) and currently preparing monographs on the Battles at Guilford Courthouse, Hobkirk’s Hill and Eutaw Springs with Josh Howard and Matt Brenckle. Larry along with Josh Howard wrote Fortitude and Forbearance – the North Carolina Line in the Revolutionary War (NC Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh 2004).

Seabrook Wilkinson- After an undergraduate degree in History of Art at Harvard, Charles Pinckney Seabrook Wilkinson did graduate work in History at the University of South Carolina under Robert Weir for a year before proceeding to Oxford for degrees in Theology. Now finishing a dissertation in English, he writes historical articles and reviews for the Charleston Mercury, of which he is Copy Editor. His first collection of poems, A Local Habitation, is in press.

Charles B. Baxley earned a B.A. and J.D. and from the University of South Carolina. He is a practicing attorney in Lugoff, SC, and is the publisher and editor of the magazine, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Charles has served as President of the Kershaw County Historical Society, numerous local civic organizations, a USAF reserve officer, a Municipal Judge, Adjunct Professor of Law, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kershaw County public school system. Charles likes to "put the action on the ground" and has served as a planner, host, and tour guide at the Tarleton, Camden Campaign, and Thomas Sumter Symposia, for US Army staff rides, and other tours of Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War sites. He is the co-founder of the Southern Campaigns Roundtable, Corps of Discovery tour group, and the Hobkirk’s Hill Battlefield Archaeology Project (ARCHH). Charles is the chair of the Battle of Camden battlefield preservation project advisory council.

David Reuwer earned a J.D. from Pepperdine University and a B.A. in from Towson University. David is a historian and practicing attorney, emphasizing historic preservation law. He was an adjunct professor of historic preservation at the College of Charleston. He was the lead investigator of the initial Eutaw Springs battlefield survey and is the associate editor of the magazine, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. David is an engaging Southern Campaigns battlefield tour guide who co-planned and lead the Camden Campaign and Thomas Sumter Symposia tours, and for US Army staff rides, and other tours of Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War sites. He is the co-founder of the Southern Campaigns Roundtable, Corps of Discovery tour groups, and the Hobkirk’s Hill Battlefield Archaeology Project (ARCHH).

John Maass is currently in the history Ph.D. program for Early American History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of “All this Poor Province Could Do: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762,” The North Carolina Historical Review, January 2002; "To Disturb the Assembly: Tarleton's Charlottesville Raid and the British Invasion of Virginia, 1781,” Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn 2000; That Unhappy Affair:” Horatio Gates and the Battle of Camden (2001) published by the Kershaw County (SC) Historical Society; and "The American Militia in the South: from Camden to Guilford Courthouse," Muzzleloader, November/December 2001. John was the program coordinator for the Banastre Tarleton and Camden Campaign symposia.

Joanna B. Craig serves as Executive Director of Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, chief planner and hostess of the Revolutionary War Field Days held each November at Historic Camden, their school programs, Lyceum talks, and other colonial era programs. She served as a planner, hostess, and symposium coordinator of the Tarleton, Camden Campaign, and Thomas Sumter Symposia. Joanna also serves on the regional tourists planning agency and on the Executive Committee of the Battle of Camden battlefield preservation project advisory council.

Howard Burnham born in England claims American blood from his paternal grandfather, a much-traveled Californian mining engineer, who married a British girl in South Africa during the Boer War and is buried in Cannes, France, beside Admiral de Grasse, the man who made Yorktown possible. His great-uncle, Frederick R. Burnham, a scout and explorer, warrants an entry in the American Dictionary of National Biography. Burnham’s namesake ancestor, First Lieutenant Howard Burnham, U.S.A., was killed on the first day at Chickamauga.

The present Howard was educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and at University College in the University of Durham, where he took honors in Modern History. He has worked as an actor, educator and museum curator. In 1973 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He is the author of Grones Dictionary of Music or Misleading Lives of the Great Composers (Emerson Edition) and several more accurate booklets on theater history, published by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

He began performing his acclaimed dramatic monologues in 1981 when he depicted John Aubrey, the 17th century antiquary and gossip. Subsequent one-man shows has featured Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Charles Dickens, the French romantic poet Theophile Gautier, Laurence Sterne, “the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd” (Shakespeare’s first anthologist), Joseph Rowntree the Quaker philanthropist, and Thomas Hardy.

Howard’s American Revolutionary War programs include Never Play Hockey With A Bishop: Lord Cornwallis in the South (which has played repeatedly at every major site associated with the earl’s campaign,) and characterizations of Banastre Tarleton, Tom Paine, Horatio Gates and Thomas Sumter. His companion piece to Lord Cornwallis: Thirty Wagons and a Wine Cellar: Johnny Burgoyne and Saratoga plays annually at Bunker Hill, Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. He has a War of 1812 twelve program: The British kept a-running: Sir John Lambert on Andy Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. His Civil War one-man show, The Lion, the Eagle and Dixie: A British Perspective on the War between the States as seen by the Artist-Journalist, Frank Vizetelly,has played at Shiloh Military Park, the SC State Museum and Manassas Battlefield. His most recent shows have been on Winston Churchill, Captain Smith of the Titanic, Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.

He is currently preparing characterizations of Lord Rawdon for Ninety-Six, and the Duke of Wellington for the State Museum’s up-coming Napoleon exhibit.

For more information call Joanna Craig at Historic Camden (803) 432-9841 or see the symposium postings on www.southerncampaign.org or www.historic-camden.net.

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