W. Eric Emerson is the director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia and the state historic preservation officer. He is the author of Sons of Privil...view moreW. Eric Emerson is the director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia and the state historic preservation officer. He is the author of Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War, coeditor of Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden, and editor of Palmetto Profiles: The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fameview less