Dan Welch is an educator with a public school district in Ohio and seasonal Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park. He received his BA in Instrumental Music Education from Youngstown State University and a MA in Military History with a Civil War Era concentration at American Military University. He is the co-author of The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863, and Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day. A contributing member at Emerging Civil War for more than seven years he is the co-editor of the first three volumes of ECW’s 10th Anniversary Series. He now serves as associate editor of the renowned Gettysburg Magazine. He resides with his wife, Sarah, in Boardman, Ohio.