Bryan Bush was born in 1966 in Louisville,Kentucky and has been a nativeof that city ever since. He graduated withhonors from Murray State University witha degree in History and Psychology, andreceived his Master's Degree from the Universityof Louisville in 2005.Bryan has always had a passion for history,especially the Civil War. He has been a memberof many different Civil War historicalpreservation societies and roundtables. Hehas consulted for movie companies and otherauthors, coordinated with other museumson displays of various museum articles andartifacts, has written for magazines, such as Kentucky Civil War Magazine,North/South Trader, The Kentucky Civil War Bugle, the Kentucky Explorerand Back Home in Kentucky, and worked for many different historical sites.In 1999, Bryan published his first work: The Civil War Battles of the WesternTheater." Since then, Mr. Bush has had published over fourteen books onthe Civil War and Louisville history, including several titles for The HistoryPress, including Louisville During the Civil War: A History and Guide andLouisville's Southern Exposition, Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky, andThe Men Who Built The City of Progress: Louisville During The Gilded Age.Bryan Bush has been a Civil War re-enactor for fifteen years, portrayingan artillerist. For five years Bryan was on the Board of Directors and curatorfor the Old Bardstown Civil War Museum and Village, The Battles of theWestern Theater Museum in Bardstown, Kentucky, was a board member forthe Louisville Historical League, and is the official Civil War tour guide forCave Hill Cemetery.In December of 2019, Bryan Bush became the park manager for the PerryvilleState Historic Site.
