Jon-Erik Gilot

Jon-Erik Gilot is a graduate of Bethany College and Kent State University, and has spent years working in the fields of archives and preservation. He is the curator and social historian at the curator and social historian of the Espy Post, a contributing author with Emerging Civil War, and a board member at the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation. His first book in the Emerging Civil War Series will detail John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.

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