Clarence R. Geier, professor of anthropology at James Madison University, is coeditor of Look to the Earth: Historical Archaeology and the American Civil War. Stephen R. Potter, regional archaeologist with the National Park Service for the National Capital Region, is the author of Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley.

"An impressive compendium of varying, but related methods of understanding the war through historical archaeology. Readers willing to expend some effort will come away with a better understanding of the Civil War." - Civil War Book Review; From the introduction: "Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War is must reading for professionals, collectors, and all people interested in battlefield archaeology, the material culture of the Civil War era, and the preservation of associated sites." - Edwin C. Bearss, historian emeritus, National Park Service; "Speaks to the carnage of war, figuratively and literally, as each author [investigates] the physical evidence of the war and its ramifications to those living at the time and in our culture today. There is little question that the American Civil War changed the fabric of our culture in ways that are still being felt today, and this volume provides a real and tangible link, via the material culture left behind by its participants, to that time." - Douglas D. Scott, Midwest Archaeology Center, Lincoln, Nebraska