Lance J. Herdegen is the author of several books. Those Damned Black Hats: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign (Savas Beatie, 2008) won the Army Historical Foundation’s Dis...view moreLance J. Herdegen is the author of several books. Those Damned Black Hats: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign (Savas Beatie, 2008) won the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award for Battle/Operational History and The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter (Savas Beatie, 2012) received the Iron Brigade Association Award. Lance enjoyed a long career as a journalist with the United Press International (UPI) news wire service and was recently inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame. He lives in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin.view less