Lee Thomas Oxford is a Research Historian, and a Family Historian.   His  curiosity about his own ancestry led into ten years of  tireless inquiry into North Carolina’s Civil War story.  This investigation has made Lee the principal authority on two rather unusual 1861 Civil War engagements on the Outer Banks of North Carolina – the Capture of the Gunboat Fanny and the subsequent Chicamacomico Affair.  Lee’s research  has led him into considerable investigation of early Confederate prisons, including the Richmond Tobacco Warehouses of 1861-1862, Parish Prison of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Tuscaloosa Prison.   His archival research services have allowed him to provide critical source material for leading experts  and authors on a considerably wide variety of subjects, including  19th-Century American religious movements, namely the early Millerites and later Adventists, the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or Mormons, and the Kingdom of Matthias and Sojourner Truth.  Lee has extensively researched American slave colonization and the founding of the African Colony of Liberia, the early Baptist missionary work of William Ward and William Carey in India, and Adoniram Judson in Burma, and has also done considerable study  on American support of the Greek War of Independence of 1821-1830.   Lee is the proprietor of Lee Oxford Books & Antiquarian Newspapers, and is a listed independent researcher for hire with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC.  Lee holds a B.S. in Sociology and Psychology from Frostburg University, and a Master of Divinity from Columbia Biblical Seminary.  He has been married to his wife, Stacy, for 30 years, and is the father of three married adult children.