James A. Morgan III

Jim Morgan is a co-founder and past president of the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table in Charleston, SC. He is a member of the board of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust. He also is a past president of the Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable in Leesburg, VA, and was a co-founder and chairman of the Friends of Ball’ s Bluff. His previous work includes a tactical study of Ball’ s Bluff titled A Little Short of Boats: The Battles of Ball’ s Bluff and Edwards Ferry and a chapter on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War for ECW’ s Turning Points of the Civil War. He also has written for Civil War Times, America’ s Civil War, The Artilleryman, Blue & Gray, and other periodicals. Retired in 2014 from the State Department, Jim spends much of his time as a National Park Service volunteer at Forts Sumter and Moultrie.