Schmidt, James M.: - A chemist by education and profession, Jim Schmidt is currently employed as a pharmaceutical research scientist near Houston, Texas. Jim has had a lifelong interest in history and has written more than fifty articles for the Civil War News and North & South, World War II, Learning Through History and Chemical Heritage magazines. He is the author of two previous books on the American Civil War and has given presentations on history to groups across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic. Jim Schmidt is an active member of the Woodlands (TX) Civil War Round Table and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.