Joseph L. Owen

I am a National Park Ranger at Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas. Having served 15 years in the U.S, Navy, I attended college at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma receiving a bachelor's degree in history and a Masters Degree in Secondary Education. I taught Social Studies for eight years in Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon before changing careers to work for the National Park Service.

I am a member of the Gettysburg Foundation, Gettysburg National Battlefield Association, Gettysburg Heritage Center, Gettysburg Seminary Museum and Education Center, Associate Member of Hood's Texas Brigade Association (Re-activated), American Battlefield Trust, Military Order of the Stars and Bars, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the VFW, Disabled American Veterans and the American Legion.

I am the author/co-author of the following books: Texans at Gettysburg: Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade, (2016), Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862 (2017), Lone Star Valor: Texans of the Blue and Gray at Gettysburg (2019), A Fine Introduction to Battle: Hood's Texas Brigade at the Battle of Eltham's Landing, May 7, 1862 (2021),

Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863 (2022), A Texan First: Color Sgt. George A. Branard Recalls the Civil War (2023,) A Texas Sergeant at Gettysburg: The Letters of Val C. Giles, 4th Texas Infantry (2023), Historical Reminiscences of The Civil War: Sgt. J.B. Polley, Hood's Texas Brigade (2024), In the Thickest of the Fray: Mississippians at Gettysburg - In Their Own Words (2025), Fames Immortal Scroll: Alabama Soldiers at Gettysburg (2026.) Future books in the making are Arkansans at the Battle of Chickamauga, Floridians at Gettysburg, Hood's Texas Brigade at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Hood's Texas Brigade Soldiers at Gettysburg and at the 50th Anniversary of Gettysburg-1913.