John Horn

A native of Illinois, John Horn received a B.A. in English and Latin from New College (Sarasota, Florida) in 1973 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1976. He has practiced law in the Chicago area since graduation, occasionally holding local public office, and living in Oak Forest with his wife and law partner, H. Elizabeth Kelley, a native of Richmond, Virginia. They have three children. Horn and his wife travel to the Old Dominion often to visit relatives, battlefields, and various archives. He is a member of the Chicago Civil War Round Table and has published articles in Gettysburg Magazine, North & South, Civil War Times Illustrated and America's Civil War.

His books include "The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865" (Savas Beatie, 2019), winner of the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History. Other books are "The Destruction of the Weldon Railroad" (reissued by Savas Beatie in 2015 in a revised and expanded Sesquicentennial Edition as The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864") and "The Petersburg Campaign" (Combined Books, 1993). With Hampton Newsome (author of "Richmond Must Fall") and Dr. John G. Selby (author of "Virginians at War"), Horn co-edited "Civil War Talks: The Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans" published by the University Press of Virginia in 2012.

He is currently working on a history of Grant's second offensive at Petersburg: "Grant Besieges Lee at Petersburg: Jerusalem Plank Road and the Wilson-Kautz Raid, June 20-July 1, 1864."