I first met Art when he and I were fellows together in a week-long "Teaching with Historic Places" seminar sponsored by the National Trust and the NPS. It was a really intensive set of sessions, interspersed with periods of exploring local sites around Frederick, Maryland, where the seminar was held. On one of these outings most of the group of twenty dropped into a bookstore next to the restaurant where we'd just had lunch and therein was a display of "Confederate Mobile" . . . which took us all by surprise because although Art told us he was with the Louisiana State Parks system, he had never mentioned the fact that he was a published author! We naturally all acquired copies of the book and were rewarded with personalized inscriptions later that evening.

Art took history very seriously . . . but he never took himself so seriously that he didn't have time for others . . . he even took time away from an important task at the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier at Petersburg when I dropped in unannounced and spent the next hour escorting me around as if that were all he had to do . . . and he always took time to answer phone calls and e-mails.

A truly remarkable man who is greatly missed, indeed.

Ralph Jones
Honey Springs Battlefield