John Michael Priest
Retired high school history teacher John Michael Priest has been interested in Civil War history since an early age. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He enjoys studying and writing history with a grassroots-level perspective. John appeared on Discovery Channel’s Unsolved History: “Pickett’s Charge” (2002) and has written extensively about the Civil War. His most recent book was “Stand to It and Give Them Hell”: Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 (2016). He and his wife live in Clear Spring, Maryland.