Susannah J. Ural

Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D. is the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln & Civil War Studies in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. Her work has ranged from an analysis of the motivations of Irish-Catholic volunteers in the Union Army (The Harp and the Eagle, 2006), to the development and evolution of the Confederacy's most celebrated unit (Hood's Texas Brigade, 2017), to the common experiences of Americans in the Civil War (Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades, 2013), to the experiences of marginalized groups at war (ed. Civil War Citizens, 2010). Ural has been a guest editor for a special issue focused on veterans for The Journal of the Civil War Era, she serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Military History, War & Society, Civil War History, The Journal of the Civil War Era, and Civil War Times Illustrated.