David L. Mowery is a native resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. American military history piqued his interest at an early age. Since childhood, he has researched and visited over seven hundred battlefields across fifty states and nine countries. In 2001, David joined the all-volunteer Ohio Civil War Trail Commission as its Hamilton County representative, but over the years his role expanded to include the final design and historical validation of the entire length of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail of Ohio. He is the coauthor of "Morgan’s Raid Across Ohio: The Civil War Guidebook of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail" (Ohio Historical Society, 2014) and the author of "Morgan’s Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio" (History Press, 2013) and "Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City" (History Press, 2021). Since 1995, David has been a member of the Cincinnati Civil War Round Table, for which he has written various papers on Civil War subjects and has led many Civil War tours of the Cincinnati region. He also serves with the Buffington Island Battlefield Preservation Foundation, the grass-roots organization working to preserve Ohio’s largest Civil War battlefield.