Cecily Zander

Cecily Zander (Col ’15) has published The Army under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War (LSU Press), a path-breaking study focusing on the fierce political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the Civil War era. It examines how prominent political figures interacted with the professional army and how those same leaders misunderstood the value of regular soldiers fighting to reunify the fractured nation.