Bryan S. Bush

My Dear Fellow Citizens:

This Saturday on November 7, plans to be a busy day for me. I will be at the Hardin Co. Library in Elizabethtown, Kentucky discussing Louisville During the Civil War at 1 Pm, and then I will be heading to the Frazier International History Museum at 3 Pm to also give a lecture on Louisville During the Civil War, but the Frazier Museum is also having a Civil War artifacts workshop. Several of the items from their collection will be on display for the general public to see upclose. I have asked that George Prentice’s Henry Rifle be put on display. This is a rare opportunity and I encourage everyone to come out to the Frazier Museum. They are also having a fantastic exhibit on local heroes from WW II. So come out and have some fun.

My dear fellow readers:

Just to give you a update on my newest book, the publisher has sent the book to be published. We are at the finish line…they are still looking at a spring release date, hopefully they change their mind and it will be out in December for Christmas sales. I wish it was out for Halloween. I have some really great stories submitted by many of my friends.

12/10/09 update: Haunted Battlefields of the South is now released.

My Dear fellow readers:

October is shaping up to be a real busy month for me. On October 3, I will be in Elizabethown at the Hardin County Library at 1 pm to give a lecture on Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge. I now have a power point presentation to go with the lecture.
On October 10, I have my Louisville During the Civil War bus tour. I am looking forward to the event, and if the event is successful, I plan to hold it again next year.
On October 17, I will be going to a new event called Books on the River Bank at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati. My stepbrother Bud Halbeisen actually designed the art work for the event.
I hope to see everyone at my events, especially the civil war bus tour….you will learn alot and should be alot of fun too.
Bryan

My Dear Fellow Readers:

I am looking forward to my speech at the Highlands Library on Bardstown Road, which is located in the Mid-City Mall. The lecture is at 2 PM August 29 and will include a power point presentation. The lecture will be on Louisville During the Civil War. Bardstown Road had alot of activity during the Civil War. From Cave Hill Cemetery to the Speed mansion, soldiers were marching up and down Bardstown Road during much of the war.

Bryan has just reduced prices on three of his Civil War books in his store.

• Kentucky’s Civil War 1861-1865 (Hardcover) has been reduced from $37.95 to $35.95.
• My Dear Mollie: The Letters of Brig. Gen. Daniel Griffin has been reduced from $24.95 to $22.95.
• The Civil War Battles of the Western Theatre has been reduced from $39.95 to $37.95.

My Dear Fellow Readers:

I encourage everyone to come out and see my lecture on August 16th, at the Memorial Auditorium on James Guthrie. If you have never heard of James Guthrie, you should as a Louisvillian. He is literally Mr. Louisville. He was the founder and president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. He helped build the Jefferson County Courthouse, the School for the Blind, founder of the University of Louisville, founded out first fire department. The list goes on and on. I learned a lot myself. There will be a full powerpoint presentation to follow the lecture.

My Dear Fellow Readers:
I just got back from Midway, Kentucky and picked up two fantastic books at my favorite bookstore. I picked up Bennett Young’s Wizards in the Saddle and Adam Rankin Johnson’s book on Partisan Rangers. Bennett Young rode with Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, and lived in Louisville after the war. I also photographed the historical marker describing Sue Mundy’s raid on Midway, and I photographed the monument dedicated to the four Confederate soldiers executed by General Burbridge’s Order Number 59. I am putting together a lecture on Sept 19, with power point presentation on General Burbridge at Octagon Hall.

Check out this announcement on Louisville History & Issues: “Louisville During the Civil War Bus Tour, Saturday, October 10 — A Fun Event for Local History Buffs!“

There’s also a Facebook event set up for it.

Bryan will be leading the tour around many spots in Louisville, and will be selling/signing his book Louisville and the Civil War: A History & Guide.

My Dear Fellow Readers:
Good news! Schieffer Publishing is now laying out my latest book on Ghost Stories from Civil War battlefields. The projected release date with be spring 2010, just in the time for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War.

12/10/09 update: Haunted Battlefields of the South is now released.

My Dear Fellow Readers:
This past Sunday I had a fantastic time at the J. B. Speed Art Museum. I arrived at the museum at 12 am on Sunday in order to be able to check out the new exhibit Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln. If you have not seen the exhibit, I highly recommended it. They have some very rare artifacts, such as Abraham Lincoln’s solid gold pocket watch made by Tiffany’s, his walking stick, his life face mask, a silk ribbon from his coffin. They also have artifacts from Mary Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, and Robert Todd. They also have artifacts from Col. Frank Wolford, Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm, James Speed, Joshua Speed, and many other Kentucky related artifacts from the Civil War. They also mentioned General Stephen Gano Burbridge! It was nice to see how the exhibit tied together information from my two books on Burbridge and Lincoln and the Speeds.
As for the lecture, I had a good turn out and many of the folks afterwards asked quite alot of good questions. I would like to personally thank Megan Robertson and hope to work with the Speed Museum in the near future again.