Paul Brueske

Paul Brueske, a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast, has been studying the Civil War history of northwest Florida and south Alabama for the past 20 years. He is the president and founder of the Mobile Area Civil War Round Table and the head track and field coach at the University of South Alabama. Brueske is a regular speaker on Gulf Coast-related Civil War topics and a member of the Friends of Historic Blakeley State Park, the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, and Friends of the History Museum of Mobile. He is the author of The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865 (2018).