James Lee Conrad is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, and the National Law Center at George Washington University. Conrad has published articles in such journals as Civil War Times Illustrated and America's Civil War. A contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, he is the author of Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Conrad is an attorney with its Judge Advocate General's Department.
