John David SmithJOHN DAVID SMITH is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author and editor of thirty books, including An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideolog and Historiography, 1865–1918; Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops; and Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Read More Read Less