Kent Masterson Brown - Author/Historian

Office Address

Law Offices of Kent Masterson Brown
315 N. Broadway
Lexington, Kentucky 40508-1705
(859) 455-9330
(859) 455-9430 Facsimile

Academic Background

J.D., Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, 1974

Academic Honors

Profession

Attorney in the private practice of law in Kentucky and Washington, DC, 1974 to the present. Emphasis of law practice is in the field of health, administrative and constitutional law and civil trials.

Lecturer and Author

Editor

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, 1981-1988, The Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society

Contributing Editor, North and South Magazine

Contributing Editor, The Lincoln Herald

Writer

Books:

Author, Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. The book has been chosen as an alternate selection by both the History Book Club and Military Book Club, 2005. Winner of the 2005 Bachelder-Coddington Award for the best book on the Gettysburg Campaign and the Battle of Gettysburg. Winner of the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award, Army Historical Foundation. Winner of the 2005 James I. Robertson, Jr. Literary Prize for Distinguished Writing in Confederate History.

Author, Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. The book was chosen as an alternate selection by the History Book Club. Awarded Book Award of Merit by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Editor and Author, The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State. Mason City, Ia.: Savas/Stackpole Pub. Cos., 2000.

Introduction to reprint, A.D. Kirwan, ed., Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. The book was given the Basil W. Duke Award for the best Civil War reprint for 2002-2003.

Contributor, Civil War Battlefield Guide. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Contributor, The Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Articles:

Writer of numerous articles on the Civil War which have appeared in Virginia Country's Civil War, The Civil War, The Lincoln Herald, The Filson History Quarterly, The Register (Quarterly Journal of the Kentucky Historical Society), The Pointer View (Newspaper of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York), North and South Magazine and Hallowed Ground

Among the published articles are:

"The Long Road Back to Kentucky," Hallowed Ground (Spring, 2005)

"The Colonel and His Lady: Col. Eugene Erwin and His Wife, Josephine," The Filson History Quarterly (2000)

"Munfordville: The Campaign and Battle Along Kentucky's Strategic Axis," The Register (Spring, 2000)

"The Right of Secession," North and South Magazine (June, 2000)

"The Golden Bridge: Lee's Defense of Williamsport and His Crossing at Falling Waters," North and South Magazine (June, 1999)

"Lee at Gettysburg: The Man, The Myth, The Recriminations," The Civil War, January-February, 1993

"Double Canister at Ten Yards: Capt. Andrew Cowan and the First New York Independent Battery at Gettysburg," The Filson History Quarterly (1987)

Awards

2005 James I. Robertson, Jr. Literary Prize for Distinguished Writing in Confederate History for Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign

2005 Bachelder-Coddington Award for the best book on the Gettysburg Campaign for Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign

2005 Distinguished Writing Award, Army Historical Foundation, for Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign

Basil W. Duke Award, 2003 for Johnny Greene of the Orphan Brigade

The William Woods Hassler Award, 2000

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Book Award of Merit for Cushing of Gettysburg, June, 1994

Special Award for the Creation of The Civil War and the Civil War Society. Given by the Civil War Society, 1990

S.A. Cunningham Award for the Writing of Southern History

Robert E. Lee Award for Historical Journalism

Speaker

Creator and Lecturer, The Filson Civil War Field Institute. Sponsored by the Filson Historical Society. "John Hunt Morgan and His Great Kentucky Raids," 2005; "Shiloh," 2006; "The Invasion of Kentucky," 2007; "Vicksburg," 2007; "Murfreesboro and Hartsville," 2007; "Chickamauga and Chattanooga," 2008; "The Atlanta Campaign," 2009; and "Hood's Invasion of Tennessee," 2009; "Albert Sidney Johnston and the Defense of Kentucky," 2006.

Speaker on the Battle of Gettysburg and Civil War History at numerous historical societies, Civil War roundtables and other organizations, including:

Keynote Speaker, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College
The Delta Queen Steamboat Co. (regular speaker on Civil War theme cruises 1999, 2000, 2001)
University of Alabama, J.C.C. Sanders Memorial Lecture
Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi Historical Society
Hanover College, Civil War Alumni College
The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
Civil War Roundtable of New York City
Louisville Civil War Roundtable
Fairfield, Connecticut Civil War Roundtable
Kentucky Civil War Roundtable
Indianapolis Civil War Roundtable
Knoxville Civil War Roundtable

Kalamazoo Civil War Roundtable
Midwest Conference of Civil War Roundtables
Cincinnati Civil War Roundtable
Madison County, Indiana Civil War Roundtable
Abraham Lincoln Group, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln Civil War Roundtable, Detroit, Michigan
Richmond, Virginia Civil War Roundtable
Madison County, Kentucky Civil War Roundtable
Gettysburg National Military Park
Chicago Civil War Roundtable
Wilmington, N.C. - Cape Fear Civil War Roundtable
Chautauqua County, New York Historical Society
Cumberland Valley Seminar (Chambersburg, PA)
Gettysburg Heritage Week (jointly sponsored by the Gettysburg Travel Council and the Gettysburg National Military Park)
Indiana Historical Society Convention
Antietam National Military Park
Memorial Day Dedication Pee Wee Valley, Kentucky
Gettysburg College Civil War Institute
Robert E. Lee Birthday Address (VA State Capitol Rotunda)
North Carolina Department of Tourism, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Association for Preservation of Civil War Sites annual convention, Nashville,
Tennessee, Hagerstown, Maryland, and Lexington, Kentucky
Memorial Day Address, Petersburg, Virginia
Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington, D.C.
Civil War Preservation Trust Teachers Institute

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, February 2006 Civil War Lectures

Traveller's Rest Plantation and Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, 2006 Civil War Symposium Keynote Speaker

National Museum of the Civil War, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2006 Civil War Lecture Series Keynote Speaker

Union League of Philadelphia, Fall 2006 Civil War Lecture

Originator, moderator and speaker at all seminars and symposia sponsored by The Civil War and The Civil War Society from 1982 until 1988, including seminars on "The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864," "The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862," "Antietam Campaign," "The Peninsula Campaign," "Gettysburg;" "Chattanooga and Chickamauga Campaign," "Second Manassas," "The Invasion of Kentucky." Conducted annual walking tours of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Moderator and speaker at symposia on "The War in Kentucky," July - August, 1997 and "States Rights to Secession," Charleston, S.C., August 19 - 23, 1998 sponsored by The American Civil War Institute.

Participant, Colloquia on "States Rights," Liberty Fund, Brookneal, Virginia, 1996; "The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798," Liberty Fund, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1999 and Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1999.

Preservation

Chairman, Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission (appointed by the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, Manuel Lujan), 1991 to 1995

Member, Kentucky Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Member, Lower Mississippi Valley Civil War Task Force, 1995 to 1997 (appointed by Lt. Gov. Melinda Schwegmann of Louisiana)

Testimony Before the United States Congress

Prepared a report and title examination on the Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home, LaRue County, Kentucky for the National Park Service and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation to enable the Department of the Interior to acquire the site to be added to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site.

Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005

The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State. Mason City: Savas Publishing Co., 2000