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Events

Guided Battlefield Tour & Seminar Series
GETTYSBURG, PA. MAY 8-9-10, 2008
General George Gordon Meade and the First Clash at Gettysburg
Witnessing History announces the first tour in its guided battlefield tour and seminar series on the Army of the Potomac and the Gettysburg Campaign.

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Old Court House Civil War Museum, Winchester, Virginia
Author book signing March 22, 2007, Kent Masterson Brown, "Retreat from Gettysburg" .

The Filson Civil War Field Institute - The Campaign and Battle of Shiloh
April 20 – 23, 2006
Kent Masterson Brown set the scene for the two-day battle and led our group throughout the 4,000 acres of the park to walk the same ground as the soldiers walked in April 1862

The Filson Civil War Field Institute - Tour Led by Kent Masterson Brown
September-October, 2005
The Filson Civil War Field Institute explores the complex history of Civil War era Kentucky and the Ohio Valley region with an emphasis on the battles and campaigns of the Western Theater.


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.


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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.


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


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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.


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Articles:

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.

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)


Producer

DVD/Documentaries:

Director, Retreat from Gettysburg . Based upon the critically-acclaimed and award-winning book, Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics & the Pennsylvania Campaign, written by Kent Masterson Brown, the upcoming DVD documentary is written and hosted by Mr. Brown.


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Director, The Long Road Back To Kentucky . Written and hosted by Mr. Brown, Long Road Back to Kentucky covers the collapse of the Confederate defenses in Kentucky in the Winter of 1862, the Battle of Shiloh and the movement of General Bragg's Confederate Army from Tupelo to Chattanooga.


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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

 


Links of Interest

The following sites have links provided to take you directly to the appropriate website.

Filson Historical Society

University of North Carolina Press

University Press of Kentucky

Civil War Preservation Trust

Lexington History Museum

Civil War & Underground Railroad Museum

National Museum of the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Travellers Rest Plantation

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate

 


LAW OFFICES OF

KENT MASTERSON BROWN

Lexington Office

P.O. Box 1208
315 N. Broadway
Lexington, Kentucky 40508-1705

(859) 455-9330
(859) 455-9430 Facsimile

Washington, D.C. Office

Webster, Chamberlain & Bean
1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20006

(202) 785-9500
(202) 835-0243 Facsimile

 

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