Michael Thomas Smith is an assistant professor of history at McNeese State University. He is the coeditor of Letters from a North Carolina Unionist: John A. Hedrick to Benjamin S. Hedrick, 1862–1865 (North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 2001), and the author of A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent (University of Delaware Press, 2003) and The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North (University of Virginia Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in American Nineteenth Century History, the New England Quarterly, and other journals.
