James I. "Bud" Robertson, Jr.

One of ten Alumni Distinguished Professors among Tech’s 2,200 faculty, and Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Robertson is nationally known and respected. He is a legislature appointed member of the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and was an advisor to another state agency - The Virginia Celebration of the Birth of Robert E. Lee Commission. Robertson and Davis are co-editors of the five-volume Virginia at War series.

William C. “Jack” Davis

Professor Davis continues as Director of Programs for the Civil War Center and periodically teaches a graduate seminar. The most productive writer in Civil War history, he recently annotated Edwin De Leon’s Secret History of the Southern Confederacy. Davis is currently overseeing a large-scale indexing of Southern wartime newspapers.

Clive E. Rice

Born in southern England, an immigrant to southern Connecticut, Rice is now the backbone of the Roanoke Civil War Round Table. During 1951-1955, the golden age of radio, he was known as “Bobby Benson” and spent his adult career with the U.S. Navy.

William F. Stringer

Lt. Col. Stringer is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a sixteen year veteran of the Marine Corps. He currently serves as Deputy Commandant for the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets and is an adjunct faculty member of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

Daniel B. Thorp

Associate Professor and Chair of the Virginia Tech History Department, Thorp has received awards from the university for teaching and undergraduate advising. He has taught at Sunderland University in England and spent six months as a Fulbright Scholar in Wellington, New Zealand.