Ray Adkins— local best selling author of “Into Barboursville, Ky. to Destroy Camp Andy” and the following: Diary of “ Zeke” Evans Barboursville Home Guard, The Battle of Barboursville, Kentucky and “The Legend of “Eligius Yellowfeather” and just completed in the fall of 2008 “School of the Company Infantry Tactics of 1861” and “The 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry & Artillery Regiment “The Orphan Brigade”.  Ray and his wife Debra are residents of Artemus, Kentucky. Ray is a Kentucky Colonel, a veteran of the U.S. Army Vietnam, President of the Battle of Barbourville Inc. member of the Daniel Boone Festival Committee. He is currently employed by the Knox County Board of Education. Ray is currently Colonel of the largest Civil War Infantry Re-enacting group in the state of Kentucky with over 180 members. Ray has helped in the downtown Civil War Park, Ray’s books center around Eastern Kentucky during the 1860-1865  Civil  War period.