• Wayne Motts, President & CEO, The Gettysburg Foundation: “From Second Manassas to Gettysburg: The True Story of a Texas Brigade Officer and a Union Artillerist” How Col. Benjamin F. Carter, 4th Texas Infantry and Captain Mark Kerns, Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, fighting on opposite sides, are connected through kind acts. Motts has been a registered Gettysburg Guide for over 30 years. • Richard B. McCaslin, TSHA Professor of Texas History, the University of North Texas: “A Glorious Time at Brenham: The Tenth Reunion of Hood’s Texas Brigade Association in 1881.” McCaslin is the author or editor of 19 books and the recipient of multiple awards for his scholarship. He is a great speaker who brings history alive. • Scott Bowden, noted authority on Robert E. Lee: “Lee’s leadership and the role of the Texas Brigade at The Wilderness.” An award-winning author, Bowden’s current project includes the groundbreaking multi-volume series, “Robert E. Lee at War: The Mind and Method of a Great American Soldier. • John C. Perry, expert on Civil War weaponry: “Confederate Handguns.” Perry has taken numerous leadership roles in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is the author of Galloping Thunder, Civil War Carbines, and Thunder In Hand, Civil War Handguns.
