| Joseph Lancaster Brent, The Lugo Case and Capture of the Ironclad “Indianola,” 1926 (1 printed volume) and Joseph Lancaster Brent, Mobilizable Fortifications and their Controlling Influence in War, 1885 [second edition, 1916] (1 printed volume).
Born in Maryland, Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826-1905) studied law at Georgetown College, practiced in the Attakapas region of Louisiana, and then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1850, where he served two terms in the state legislature. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army as a major, serving under Gen. John Magruder in the Peninsula, Wilderness and Richmond campaigns. He then served in Louisiana under Gen. Richard Taylor, attaining the rank of chief of artillery and ordnance.
In 1864 he was promoted to brigadier general of the cavalry and participated in the fighting in western Louisiana. After the war, he practiced law in Baltimore until his marriage to Rosella Kenner, the daughter of the prominent Louisiana planter and politician Duncan Farrar Kenner, in 1870.
He returned to Louisiana to administer her father's plantations (Hermitage, Houmas, Ashland, Oakland, Roseland, Fashion, Bowdon, and Tensas) until Kenner's death in 1887. He returned to Baltimore, where he practiced law and participated in state government. Joseph and Rosella Kenner Brent had a daughter, Nanine Brent, and a son, Duncan Kenner Brent.
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