Dr. Norman C. Delaney is the author or coauthor of numerous books about Civil War history, including The Maltby Brother’s Civil War (Texas A&M University Press, 2013) and John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama (University of Alabama Press, 2003). He received the 2010 Naval History Author of the Year Award for a pair of articles about USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama sailors: “The Alabama’s ‘Bold and Determined Man’” (August 2010) and “‘I Didn’t Feel Excited a Mite’” (December 2010).