Dr. Ian Michael Spurgeon Bio

Dr. Ian Michael Spurgeon is the author of Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit and Man of Douglas and Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi, and is currently a military historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Washington, D.C.