Lee Thomas Oxford is a Research Historian and Genealogist.   His  curiosity about his own ancestry led him to invest ten years of  tireless inquiry into North Carolina’s early Civil War history.  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 Union Gunboat Fanny and the subsequent Chicamacomico Affair.  Lee’s research has included considerable investigation of early Confederate prisons, including the Richmond Tobacco Warehouses of 1861-1862, Richland County Jail in Columbia, South Carolina, Parish Prison of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Tuscaloosa Prison in Alabama.   His archival research services have allowed him to provide critical source material for leading experts  and authors covering 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 also extensively researched the U.S. Indian Removal Policy, the Seminole Indian Wars, the Cherokee Trail of Tears, American Slave Colonization and the founding of the African Colony of Liberia, as well as American support of the 1821-1830 Greek War of Independence.   His research has also covered the early Baptist missionary work of William Ward and William Carey in India, and Adoniram Judson in Burma.  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.