Stephen R. Wise is the director of the Parris Island Museum, the cultural resource manager for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and serves on the editorial board for the South Carolina Historical Magazine. He is the author of two books published by the university of South Carolina Press - Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War and Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston Harbor 1863, named by the South Carolina Historical Society as the best book written on South Carolina History in 1994. Wise lives in Beaufort with his wife Alice Parsons Wise.
Lawrence S. Rowland is professor of history at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, USA and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society. He is the coauthor of The History of Beaufort County: South Carolina: Volume I, 1514–1861.
Gerhard Spieler (1920–2012) was a historian who wrote extensively about Beaufort County on topics such as local churches, cemeteries, and military forts, and was also a researcher of the area’s African American history. Spieler wrote a weekly column for the Beaufort Gazette and also wrote a column known as “Historically Speaking” for Sea Island Scene. Spieler was a military veteran of World War II and was married to Ruth Spieler.
Alexander Moore is a historian of colonial South Carolina, documentary editor, and student of southern art history. The former director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Moore is an acquisitions editor at the University of South Carolina Press and the author or editor of several works on southern history.
