Robert I. Girardi
Robert I. Girardi has had a lifelong fascination with the American Civil War and has studied it from all sides, tramping over the battlefields and related sites, collecting artefacts and reading thousands of documents and letters written by participants . He earned his M.A. in Public History at Loyola University of Chicago and has written several other books including ‘The New Annals of the Civil War’ and ‘Recollections of the War of the Rebellion’. Robert lives and works in Chicago where he works as a homicide detective for the Chicago Police.