it is my pleasure to introduce to you kent masterson brown. kent is a lawyer from lexington, kentucky. he's been practicing law for more than 43 years. during his busy career, he's somehow managed to be a very active historian. he's published a number of important books, many of them you are familiar with, including "cushionings of gettysburg, the story of a union artillery commander" published by the university of kentucky press. many of you know it's just a few years ago that alonzo cushing received the medal of honor. more recently, kent published "retreat from gettysburg, lee, logistics and the pennsylvania campaign" published by the university of north carolina press. these days besides being an active scholar, speaker and of course researcher and writer, he's also the president and content developer for witnessing history, witnessing history is devoted to doing documentaries, documentaries really aimed at i believe a range of audiences but are particularly useful for those teachers out there and the documentaries kent has focused on have

it is my pleasure to welcome my good friend kent masterson brown. [applause] kent: thank you very much. can everybody hear me all right? i've been a lawyer for 44 years and they tell me i have a good set of lungs, so i'll try to make sure i project. again, it's a pleasure to be here and to see all of you, and a lot of old friends back there in the audience who i've known for many, many years. well, my topic today is on george gordon meade, and meade here at gettysburg. and you know, it's interesting, when you look at all the great works on the gettysburg campaign, sometimes meade seems rather lost in the text. it's particularly true of the treatment meade gets on the first day at gettysburg. it's like he doesn't exist. or he's so passive that he's not worth talking about. and then even on july 2 and july 3, we get much the same kind of treatment of general meade. and so what i thought i would do today is talk to you a little bit about george meade and particularly george meade on july 1. and you might scratch your head and say well, he wasn't even he

it is my pleasure to introduce to you kent masterson brown. kent is a lawyer from lexington, kentucky. he's been practicing law for more than 43 years. during his busy career, he's somehow managed to be a very active historian. he's published a number of important books, many of them you are familiar with, including "cushionings of gettysburg, the story of a union artillery commander" published by the university of kentucky press. many of you know it's just a few years ago that alonzo

war," author and historian kent masterson brown on union commander george gordon meade and the gettysburg campaign. ms. hour-long talk is part of the annual summer conference hosted by the gettysburg college .ivil institute i >>