Karen Stokes is an archivist with the South Carolina Historical Society. She is the author of historical fiction and nonfiction that relates to South Carolina in the Confederacy and, along with W. Eric Emerson, has coedited two collections of wartime correspondence published by the University of South Carolina Press: Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden.