James M. Smith

James M. Smith graduated with Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in King William County, Virginia. It is his hope to write a political, not military, history of the revolution—the history that John Jay asked Charles Thomson, the secretary to the Continental Congress, to write, but which never got written—telling the story from the point of view of the Loyalists as well as the Patriots. He believes it is important to understand that the American Revolution was as much a civil war as it was a revolution.