Brian Caldwell Pohanka was a well-known American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 author, historian, and preservationist. He consulted for Academy Award winning, Civil War related films, such as Glory and Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain (film)

Cold Mountain is a 2003 war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier...

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Pohanka advised on television documentaries, such as Civil War Journal on The History Channel

The History Channel

History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...

 and the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War (TV series). In addition, he was a re-enactor, serving for over a decade as Captain of Company A of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry

5th New York Volunteer Infantry

The 5th New York Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that fought during the American Civil War, led by Colonel Abram Duryée. It is also known as the "Duryée's Zouaves," named after their colorful Zouave uniforms...

, also known as "Duryée's Zouaves." He also attended annual re-enactments at Gettysburg

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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 and the Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn may refer to:* Little Bighorn River, a tributary of the Bighorn River in Wyoming and Montana* Battle of the Little Bighorn, took place near the river in 1876...

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Pohanka was named Battlefield Preservationist of the Year in 2004 by the Civil War Preservation Trust

Civil War Preservation Trust

The Civil War Trust is a charitable organization whose primary focus is in the preservation of American Civil War battlefields. The Civil War Trust also promotes educational programs and heritage tourism initiatives to inform the public of the war's history and the fundamental conflicts that...

 and the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust.

He died of cancer in 2005, and was buried at Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Cricket; father, brother and sister, among others.

Here's a link to the Washington Post's lengthy obituary about Brian Pohanka-

Brian Pohanka - The Washington Post: National, World & DC Area ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/.../AR2005061601571.html results

Published works

• Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now. Author, with James S. Brust and Sandra Barnard. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
• A Summer on the Plains with Custer's 7th Cavalry: The 1870 Diary of Annie Gibson Roberts. Schroeder Publications, 2004.
• The Soldier's View: The Civil War Art of Keith Rocco
  Keith Rocco
  Keith Rocco is a military and historical painter working in the United States.-Biography:His interest in military subjects developed at an early age. One of his first books, received as a Christmas present when he was ten, was The Golden Book of the Civil War, and he began collecting Civil War and...
  
  . Contributor. Military History Press, 2004.
• Civil War Journal: The Leaders. Editor, with William C. Davis
  William C. Davis (historian)
  William C. Davis is a professor of history at Virginia Tech University. An expert on the American Civil War, Davis has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has written more than forty books on the American Civil War and other aspects of Southern history. He was twice nominated for a...
  
   and Don Troiani
  Don Troiani
  Don Troiani is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Civil War and American Revolution. His highly realist works are most well known in the form of marketed mass produced printed reproductions, illustrated books, and book...
  
  . Gramercy, 2003.
• Billy Heath: The Man Who Survived Custer's Last Stand. Author, with Vincent J. Genovese. Prometheus Books, 2003.
• A Duryee Zouave. Author, with Thomas P. Southwick and Patrick A. Schroeder. Schroeder Publications, 2002.
• An Illustrated History of the Civil War. Author, with William J. Miller
  William J. Miller
  William Jennings Miller was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in North Andover, Massachusetts, Miller attended the public schools....
  
  . Time-Life Books, 2000.
• Campaigns of the 146th Regiment New York State Volunteers. Introduction. North Country Books, 2000.
• Don Troiani's Civil War. Author, with Don Troiani. Stackpole, 1999.
• Nor Shall Your Glory Be Forgot: An Essay in Photographs. Introduction. St Martins Press, 1999.
• Civil War Journal: The Legacies. Editor, with William C. Davis and Don Troiani. Rutledge Hill Press, 1999.
• Civil War Journal: The Battles. Editor, with William C. Davis and Don Troiani. Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
• Portraits of the Civil War. Foreword. Barnes & Noble, 1998.
• Schroeder, Patrick A. We Came to Fight: The History of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Duryee's. Introduction. North Country Books, 1998.
• Editor, "With the Fire Zouaves at First Bull Run: The Narrative of Private Arthur O. Alcock, 11th New York Volunteer Infantry." Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War (Vol. 5, No. 4, 1997). (Map by Mark A. Moore)
• The Reno Court of Inquiry: Abstract of the Official Record of Proceedings. Introduction, with William A. Graham. Stackpole, 1995.
• Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress. Author, with Christopher Nelson and the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Fulcrum Publishing, 1992.
• Myles Keogh: An Irish Dragoon in the 7th Cavalry. Editor, with John P. Langellier and Kurt Hamilton Cox. Upton & Sons, 1991.
• Nelson A. Miles: A Documentary Biography of His Military Career, 1861-1903. Editor. Arthur H. Clark, 1986.
• Time-Life Books. Civil War Series (27 Volumes). Researcher, writer, and adviser.

External links

• Find-a-Grave Entry for Brian Pohanka