Bryan Bush was born in 1966 in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a native of that city ever since. He has been a member of many different Civil War historical preservation societies; consulted for movie companies and other authors; coordinated with other museums on displays of various museum articles and artifacts; written for magazines, such as Kentucky Civil War Magazine, North/South Trader and Back Home in Kentucky; and worked for many different historical sites. Bush has been a Civil War reenactor for fourteen years, portraying an artillerist. For five years, Bush was on the board of directors and curator for the Old Bardstown Civil War Museum and Village: The Battles of the Western Theater Museum in Bardstown, Kentucky.