Hampton Newsome is author of several books on the Civil War including Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864, published by Kent State University Press  and recognized as a best book of the year by the Civil War Monitor magazine; as well as The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864, which received the Emerging Civil War Book Award and the book of the year by Civil War Books and Authors.

His most recent title is Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond. Also published by University of Kansas Press, this book has received the Edwin C. Bearss Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Chicago Civil War Roundtable as well as the Emerging Civil War 2023 Book of the Year award.

Recently retired from a career practicing consumer and environmental law, Newsome is a regular speaker at Civil War Round Tables and has led tours of sites around Richmond and Petersburg. He posts book-related information on Facebook at “Hampton Newsome – Author.” He is currently working on a book about the Appomattox Campaign.