Monte Akers

Monte Akers is an attorney practicing in Austin, Texas. He is the author of Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community (University of Texas Press, 1999 & 2011); Tales for the Telling: Six Short Stories of the Ciril War on CO (Cold Creek Productions: 2005); The Accidental Historian: Tales of Trash and Treasure (Texas Tech University Press, October, 2010), Year of Glory: The Life and Campaigns of J.E.B. Stuart, June, 1862 to June 1863 (Casemate Publishing, 2012); and Year of Desperate Struggle: Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry from Gettysburg to Yellow Tavern, 1863-1864 (Casemate Publishing, 2014).