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1 MARK A. WEITZ AUTHOR, SPEAKER, ATTORNEY, PROFESSIONAL HISTORIAN EDUCATION Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Ph.D., History, May 1998 Honors: History Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies Michael A. Steiner Memorial Award for Best Dissertation Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University), San Marcos, Texas MA, History, May 1994 Honors: Dean s List Baylor Law School, Waco, Texas JD, May 1983 Honors: Baylor Law Review (First Year Grading On) Honor s List, Spring 1981 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas BA, Major in Government, August 1979 LEGAL EXPERIENCE Weitz Morgan PLLC, Austin, Texas Partner, August 2006 Present RGOI ASC, LTD, McAllen, Texas General Counsel, April The Law Office of Mark A. Weitz, Austin, Texas Private Practitioner, September 1987 August 2006 Universal Security Insurance Company, Boca Raton, Florida President & Chief Operating Officer, June 1990 November 1990 Texas Department of Insurance, Liquidation Division, Austin, Texas Staff Attorney, August 1983 August 1987 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Austin Community College, Austin, Texas Adjunct Professor, History, Fall Semester 2007 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Research Fellow, May 2004 May 2005 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Director & Professor, Civil War Era Studies Program, Fall 2002 Spring 2004 Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama Assistant Professor, Fall 2000 Spring 2002 Honors: AUM New Faculty Grant-In-Aid , More Damning than Slaughter AUM Faculty Grant-In-Aid , More Damning than Slaughter

2 Vermont Commons School, South Burlington, Vermont Full-time Adjunct, Fall 1999 Spring 2000 Maricopa County Arizona Community College System, Phoenix, Arizona Adjunct Professor, Fall Summer 1999 PROFESSIONAL LICENSES & ADMISSIONS The State Bar of Texas, Admitted 1983 The Florida Bar, Admitted 1988 U.S. District Court - Northern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, and Northern District of Florida PUBLICATIONS (Books) The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights. Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010)* More Damning Than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005)* Nally vs. Grace Community Church of the Valley, Clergy Malpractice Comes to America. Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001)* A Higher Duty: Desertion Among Georgia Troops during the American Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). *The series received the 2008 Scribes Award given by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects PUBLICATIONS (Edited Work) On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers By John Hill Ferguson, Janet Ellison, ed., Mark A. Weitz, asst. ed., (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002). PUBLICATIONS (Journal Articles) Vikings of the South: The Confederate Privateer Fleet of 1861" North & South Magazine, 9:3 (June 2006), A Justifiable Crime: Desertion in the Confederate Army North & South Magazine, 8:1 (January 2005) I Will Never Forget the Name of You: The Home Front, Desertion and Oath Taking in Civil War Tennessee Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 59 (Spring 2000) Congressman John J. Rhodes and Representation: The Case of Native American Water Rights Western Legal History, 12 (Winter/Spring 1999), Preparing for the Prodigal Son: The Development of the Union Desertion Policy During the Civil War Civil War History, 45 ( June 1999)

3 Drill, Training and the Combat Performance of the Civil War Soldier: Dispelling the Myth of Poor Soldier, Great Fighter Journal of Military History 62 (April 1998) ; reprint, Ethan S, Rafuse, ed., The American Civil War, The International Library of Essays on Military History Series, (London: Ashgate, 2005). PUBLICATIONS (Essay Articles) Military Justice in Companion to American Military History. ed. James C. Bradford, Blackwell s Companions to American History Series, (Malden, Ma.: Blackwell Publishing, 2009). Introduction for reprint of Bessie Martin, Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army: A Study In Sectionalism. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003). Shoot Them All: Chivalry and the Confederate Officer Corps, in The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism, ed. D.J.B. Trim, History of Warfare Series, (Leiden, New York and Koln: Brill, 2002). Desertion as Mutiny: Upcountry Georgians in the Army of Tennessee, in Rebellion, Repression, Re-invention: Mutiny in a Comparative Perspective, ed. Jane Hathaway, (New York: Praeger/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001). PUBLICATIONS (Encyclopedia Articles) Desertion, Ambrose Powell Hill, and William Hoffman, in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, eds. Jeanne and David Heidler, (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio Press, 2000). PUBLICATIONS (Book Reviews) James A. Ranney, In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. (Westport, Ct: Praeger Publishers, 2006) 199 pp., H-Net Civil War on Line (April 2007). Christopher Philips and Jason L. Pendleton, eds., The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton Introduction by Christopher Phillips. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005), 629 pp., H-Net Civil War on Line (July 2006). Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier. (Austin: Texas Historical Society, 2004), 174 pp, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Vol. 55, No. 4 (Winter 2005), 89. Timothy Cozzens, ed., Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5. (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 714 pp., Civil War History 49, No. 3 (September 2003), Boemeke, Manfred F., Roger Chickering and Stig Forster, eds., Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 496 pp., H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences On Line (June, 2002). Cutrer, Thomas W., ed., Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: the Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002), 182 pp., Military History of the West 32, No. 1 (Spring 2002), Winschel, Terrence J., ed., The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier: William Wiley of the 77 th Infantry. (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 216 pp., Mississippi Journal of History LXIV, No. 1 (Spring 2002), Garrison, Webb, Mutiny in the Civil War. (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2000) 310 pp., The Historian 63, No. 1 (Fall 2002), Inscoe, John, and McWhinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) 368 pp., Appalachia Studies 29, No. 1-2 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002),

4 Ball, Durwood, Army Regulars on the Western Frontier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001) 287 pp., in Montana The Magazine of Western History (Winter 2001), Woodworth, Steven E., No Band of Brothers: Problems of the Rebel High Command. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999) 182 pp, in The Historian 63, No. 3 (Spring 2001), Duffy, James, Lincoln s Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. (New York: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997) 276 pp, in The Historian 63, No. 2 (Winter 2001), Davis, William C., ed. A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), 152 pp, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, 84 (Fall 2000), Neely, Mark E., Jr., Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999) 212 pp, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 2000), Lonn, Ella, Desertion During the Civil War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998) 251 pp, in The Historian 62, No. 1 (November 1999), CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Cold Mountain in Fact and Fiction, Siena College, February 18, 2004 A Justifiable Crime: Desertion in the Confederate Army, Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 20, 2003 If Properly Led: Command Relationships at Gettysburg, Mosby Heritage Association, 6 th Annual Conference on the Art of Command in the Civil War: Command and Control at Gettysburg, Middleburg, Virginia, October 11, 2003 The Road to Gettysburg, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Leadership Conference, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2003 The War Goes on Forever...and the Stories Never End, Key Note Address, National Collegiate Honors Conference Northeast Region Annual Conference, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 29, 2003 Religious Freedom in a Secular Society: The Case of Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley, Belmont University Convocation Series, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1, 2001 Desertion as Mutiny: Upcountry Georgians in the Army of Tennessee, International, Interdisciplinary Conference: Mutiny: Narrative, Event and Context in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, October 9-11, 1998 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, American Historical Association Member, Organization of American Historians Charter/Lifetime Member, Society of Historians of Gilded Age and Progressive Era UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT U.S. Survey to 1877, U.S. Survey 1877 to Present, Advanced Civil War Seminar, Civil War Field Experiences, Comparative U.S. Soldiers, U.S. Military History, Civil War and Reconstruction, Antebellum Women, Mexican American History, Global History , Constitutional History, Race and the Law: African American Civil Rights from

5 RELATED ACTIVITIES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Consultant, Siena College American Revolutionary Era Studies Project Faculty Advisor, Gettysburg College Civil War Theme House Faculty Advisor, Gettysburg College Living History Unit Editorial Advisor Board for Making Sense of Women s Lives (San Diego: Collegiate Press, 2000) Member, Auburn University Montgomery Faculty Graduate Council Member, Auburn University Montgomery Faculty Senate Director, Auburn University Montgomery Pre-Law Society Graduate Assistant to Dr. T.J. Davis, Special Consultant to the Provost for Arizona State University African American Studies Program Member, Austin Bar Association APPLIED HISTORY The Journeys Channel, EMG Networks Global Class Room Satellite Television Class Room Experience: The Texas Revolution 1836," March 4, 1999

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