William L. Barney

William L. Barney (1943-2025) was Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (OUP, 2011); The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (OUP, 2007); and Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy (OUP, 2020), among other titles.