Andrew J. Torget is the project's founder and director. Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Virginia, where he is completing his dissertation "Between Two Empires: Slavery in the Texas Borderlands, 1820-1845." Andrew is also the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and co-editor of Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration (University of Virginia Press, 2006) and Two Communities in the Civil War (W. W. Norton, 2007).

Project Staff:

• Dave Zimring served as the head research assistant on the project during the summer and fall of 2007, transcribing primary sources and transforming them into Extensible Markup Language (XML). Dave is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia, where he is completing his dissertation on Northerners who fought for the Confederacy.
• Bill Ferster developed the HistoryBrowser, the interface that serves the project's dynamic maps. Bill F. is head of technical development at the Virginia Center for Digital History.
• Bill Covert provided the graphical design of the project's website. Bill C. is the senior programmer at the Virginia Center for Digital History.
• Bill Hunt programmed the scripting for the project's database searching interface. Bill H. is a senior programmer at Category 4 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Project Sponsors:

The Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, Texas, provided generous financial support for the development of the project.	The Virginia Center for Digital History provided crucial programming, logistical and developmental support for the project.