Books written by Kent Masterson Brown

  • Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign
    Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign

    In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E. Lee and his ...

  • Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
    Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

    Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent Masterson Brown draws on an expansive archive to reappraise Meade's leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg.

  • The Confederacy's First Battle Flag: The Story of the Southern Cross
    The Confederacy's First Battle Flag: The Story of the Southern Cross

    This groundbreaking book reveals the true events of the creation of the Southern Cross. Brown has authored several Civil War titles and was appointed by Pres.

  • Confederacy's First Battle Flag, The: The Story of the Southern Cross
    Confederacy's First Battle Flag, The: The Story of the Southern Cross

    New Orleans Daily Picayune, March 3, 1862; Hughes, Pride of the Confederate Artillery, 12. . OR, 10(1):494-96, 514-15; Warner, Generals in Gray, 30-31. 9. P.D. Stevenson, “The Fifth Company, Washington Artillery,” New Orleans ...

  • Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander
    Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

    Follows the career of Alonzo Cushing, a 1861 graduate of West Point, as he serves as an artillary officer with the Army of the Potomac culminating with his death as he defended against Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.

  • Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander
    Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

    “ 'Double Canister at Ten Yards': Captain Andrew Cowan at Gettysburg.” Filson Club History Quarterly 59, no. 3. (1985): 293-326. Cotton, Gordon. “Judge's Letters Describe Vicksburg.” Vicksburg Sunday Post, June 1, 1987. Couch, Maj. Gen.

  • Retreat from Gettysburg

    Brown concludes that even though the battle of Gettysburg was a defeat for the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee's successful retreat maintained the balance of power in the eastern theater and left his army with enough forage, stores, and ...

  • Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
    Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

    Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent Masterson Brown draws on an expansive archive to reappraise Meade's leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg.