Colonel (Ret.) Wade Sokolosky is a graduate of East Carolina University and a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army. Wade is the co-author (with Mark A. Smith) of "To Prepare for Sherman's Coming" The Battle of Wise's Forks, March 1865, and author of North Carolina's Confederate Hospitals, 2 vols., and Final Roll Call: Confederate Losses during the Carolinas Campaign.