Robert Garth Scott is the author of several books on the American Civil War. His first book Into the Wilderness with the Army of the Potomac (Indiana University Press, 1985) is a detailed study of the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-6, 1865) where Gen. Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant first faced one another on the battlefied, and which initiated the final and bloodiest year of conflict of the Civil War. His second book, Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Maj. Henry Livermore Abbott (Kent State University Press, 1991) is a collection of letters written by a soldier who was killed in that conflict. The 22 year-old officer of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry, Abbott’s courage was legendary in the Army of the Potomac, even among the highest levels of command. Fallen Leaves was featured on the front page of the “New York Times Book Review” and was listed as one of the top 100 books ever published on the Civil War. Scott’s most recent publication is Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals and Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox (Kent State University Press, 1999) is the collected works of one of the notable generals of the war, whose unpublished papers were discovered in an attic, having been left untouched virtually since Gen. Willcox’s death. The result is a book that has been called “one of the most important first-person accounts by a major Civil War officer published in the last hundred years.”

Robert Garth Scott lives and writes in Michigan, with his wife, noted doll artist, Karen Scott. He is the father of Kristen Scott Horne and doll artist Rachel Scott Freimark. He is currently writing a novel about the Irish Potato Famine, with the working title
An American Wake.