Dwight Hughes is a public historian, author, and speaker in Civil War naval history. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1967 and served twenty years as a U.S. Navy surface warfare officer on most of the world's oceans in ships ranging from destroyer to aircraft carrier and with river forces in Vietnam. He planned and conducted convoy exercises with over twenty ships of the Maritime Prepositioned Force at Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean. Hughes taught Naval ROTC at the University of Rochester where he earned an MA in Political Science and later completed an MS in Information Systems Management from USC. Following a second career as a senior software engineer, he was honored by having a ridge in Antarctica named for him in recognition of contributions to Antarctic databases and information services. In addition to his books, Hughes is a contributing author at the Emerging Civil War blog (https://emergingcivilwar.com/author/dwightshughes/). He has presented at numerous Civil War Roundtables, historical conferences, and other venues. (See his website: https://civilwarnavyhistory.com/)Read more about this authorRead less about this author