John Michael Priest

Retired high school history teacher John Michael Priest has been interested in Civil War history since an early age. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He enjoys studying and writing history with a grassroots-level perspective. John appeared on Discovery Channel's Unsolved History: "Pickett's Charge" (2002) and has written extensively about the Civil War. His most recent book was "Stand to It and Give Them Hell" Gettysburg as the Soldiers...See more

Retired high school history teacher John Michael Priest has been interested in Civil War history since an early age. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He enjoys studying and writing history with a grassroots-level perspective. John appeared on Discovery Channel's Unsolved History: "Pickett's Charge" (2002) and has written extensively about the Civil War. His most recent book was "Stand to It and Give Them Hell" Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 (2016). He and his wife live in Clear Spring, Maryland. See less