Herman Hattaway (1938-2023) was a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Missouri Kansas City for over thirty years. He was also author, editor, or coeditor of multiple award-winning books on Civil War and southern history, including General Stephen D. Lee and (with E. Grey Dimond) Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family's Correspondence, 1846-1881, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
