American Battles & Campaigns

Kevin J. Dougherty

Kevin J. Dougherty is an instructor at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston. He is a retired U.S. Army officer who previously spent five years teaching military history and world civilizations in the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dougherty is the author of The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis (2005), Civil War Leadership and the Mexican War Experience (2007), Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (2010), Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862–63: Leadership Lessons (2011), and Ships of the Civil War (2013). He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.