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The War Outside My Window

         
Janet E. Croon
6 x 9 Hardcover
4 maps * 14 images
480 pages

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Bradley M. Gottfried
7 x 10 Hardcover
122 maps * 304 pages

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Richard J. Sommers
6 x 9 Hardcover
80 images * 7 maps
5 tables * 2 charts
288 pages

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September Mourn



Alann Schmidt &
Terry Barkley
6 x 9 Hardcover
62 images * 3 maps
168 pages
 

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Libri Novi - June 2018
Savas Beatie LLC  - 916.941.6896  - PO Box 4527 - El Dorado Hills, CA - 95762
In This Issue


KENYA'S CORNER
 
 
Dear SB Readers,
 
Be honest.

Do these glasses make me look like a geek or a basset hound? I know, ha ha, they are the same thing. But still. How can I read all these great titles without them? 


I know you won't believe it, but it is and has been chilly here in northern California. Usually by this time we have hit 100 a time or two, have routinely popped into the 90s, and the mid-80s are standard fare. 

I think we have been in the 90s precisely one time thus far, and since then in the low 70s. By this time I am bugging  Pop while he is watering the plants, and he is spraying me with the hose, or splashing me from the pool. But the pool is still chilly (feels like jumping into Lake Tahoe--and since I don't have fur it is freezing).  

GEORGIA ON MY MIND... Zoe and Pop are packing bags (I hate when they do that) and will fly to Atlanta on June 7th to meet editor Jan Croon for 8 days of exhaustion (I mean book tour "fun") as they kick off the signing/speaking national tour of  The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 . Scroll down for the tour dates and go see them if you are in Georgia! They would like that.

One of the highlights will be having the first three events in the home where LeRoy was born, wrote, suffered, and died. It is now called the 1842 Inn, which you can see HERE. Pop and Zoe are spending the night in what was likely LeRoy's room, and are excited. It is supposed to be haunted. Pop hopes he shows up.

The book is setting early sales records, is #1 in several Amazon categories, and is for specialists and non-specialists alike. Click HERE to read a really good detailed review by a non-Civil War reader. Please do yourself (and anyone who reads books) a favor and pick up a copy. My dog bones are expensive. 

WEBSITE ON MY MIND... Pop has been agonizing for a couple years trying to figure out how (investigating, seeking out, pining for, praying, and ready to kidnap a coder) to get a new more modern and functional (mobile-friendly) website up and running. The original was coded up in 2004, and it has been added to like Frankenstein--and the scars are showing. (I don't even know who Frankenstein is?!) With so many books and authors, and options, it is a real challenge, but Pop thinks he has it solved and should have the new site up and running in July. Stay tuned...



As always, thanks for your ongoing support of Pop's publishing program, for sharing his Facebook posts, for retweeting his Twitter messages, and being the best customers and friends a sweet pit bull could have ever hoped to have.

Woof,

Kenya

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 The War Outside My Window Hits the Road

Would you like a chance to meet The War Outside My Window editor, Janet Croon?  Or publisher Theodore P. Savas? Well, now is your chance!  

If you are in the Georgia area, be sure to stop by these venues, pick up a signed copy of the book, and say "hello" and take some photo s for our Facebook, Twitter, and/or newsletter!

 
* Saturday, June 9 ( 2pm & 3:30pm ) - Book Launch events at the 1842 Inn in Macon;

* Sunday, June 10 at 1pm -  Rosemary Inn Bed & Breakfast in North Augusta;

*  Monday, June 11 at 7pm - Central Georgia Genealogical Society in Warner Robins;

*  Tuesday, June 12 at
12pm - National Civil War Navy Museum in Columbus;

*  Tuesday, June 12 at 6:30pm - Blue & Grey Museum  in Fitzgerald;

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  Wednesday, June 13 at 7pm - Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta;

*  Thursday, June 14 at
7pm - Bartow History Museum;

*  Friday, June 15  from 5:30pm-8pm Acworth Bookstore in Acworth;

*  Saturday, June 16 from 1pm-5pm Chickamauga Chattanooga NMP in Fort Oglethorpe;

*  Sunday, June 17 from 1:30pm-3:30pm Walker County Historical Society in LaFayette;

Contact Renee Morehouse at 916-941-6896 or email her for more information.

If you are unable to attend these events, pre-order your signed copies of The War Outside My Window today.  
 
Email sales@savasbeatie.com or call 916-941-6896 and either Stephanie or Lisa can assist you.
 NEW Releases!
We are pleased to announce two new releases!
Both books are now available. Call the office this week at 916-941-6896, visit our website, or  email us  to place your order for SIGNED copies of both books.

Coupled with original research, it invites readers to think-and rethink-about the generalship of Grant, Lee, and senior commanders of the Civil War. This book by the wonderful Dr. Richard Sommers is an essential part of every Civil War library.

Juxtaposing primary source documents (some of them published here for the first time) against Grant's own pen and other sources, the author sheds new light on what really happened on some of the Civil War's most important battlefields.

 


For a limited time, you can download this for FREE!  Use this link and read on for more details on this book.

Invalid teenager LeRoy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865, edited by Janet E. Croon (2018), spans the gamut of life events that were of interest to a precocious and well-educated Southern teenager--including military, political, religious, social, and literary matters of the day. This alone ranks it as an important contribution to our understanding of life and times in the Old South. But it is much more than that. Chronic disease and suffering stalk the young writer, who is never told he is dying until just before his death.
 
Dr. Rasbach, a graduate of Johns Hopkins medical school and a practicing general surgeon with more than three decades of experience, was tasked with solving the mystery of LeRoy's disease. Like a detective, Dr. Rasbach peels back the layers of mystery by carefully examining the medical-related entries. What were LeRoy's symptoms? What medicines did doctors prescribe for him? What course did the disease take, month after month, year after year? The author ably explores these and other issues in I Am Perhaps Dying to conclude that the agent responsible for LeRoy's suffering and demise turns out to be Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a tiny but lethal adversary of humanity since the beginning of recorded time. 
 
In the second half of the nineteenth century, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accounting for one-third of all deaths. Even today, a quarter of the world's population is infected with TB, and the disease remains one of the top ten causes of death, claiming 1.7 million lives annually, mostly in poor and underdeveloped countries. 
 
While the young man was detailing the decline and fall of the Old South, he was also chronicling his own horrific demise from spinal TB. These five years of detailed entries make LeRoy's diary an exceedingly rare (and perhaps unique) account from a nineteenth century TB patient. LeRoy's diary offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and likeable young man of his youth and life. I Am Perhaps Dying adds considerably to the medical literature by increasing our understanding of how tuberculosis attacked a young body over time, how it was treated in the middle nineteenth century, and the effectiveness of those treatments.

About the Author: Dennis A. Rasbach, MD, is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a busy practicing surgeon. He is the author of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wound, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered (2016), a critically acclaimed micro-history of the Civil War experience at Petersburg on June 18, 1864, and the medically related issues suffered by Chamberlain. The father of two sons, he resides with his lovely wife Ellen in St. Joseph, Michigan.
New in Digital

A Single Blow
by Phillip S. Greenwalt and Robert Orrison 

Victory or Death
by Mark Maloy
 

 




NOW AVAILABLE! 
NEW 4-VOLUME SIGNED/NUMBERED
"Gen. George T. Anderson Special Edition" 

COMPILED AND ANNOTATED by Richard Michael Allen

The full detailed 
biographical rosters
for George Anderson's Confederate brigade!

(100 COP IES ONLY--15 sets already sold!)

You can purchase singles volumes if you like! 


ON TITLE PAGE:

(as printed on the title page.)
___1__ / 100
[numbered by the author, and signed in order of purchase.]

SPECS: Arrestox B Dove Gray cloth with red printing on cover and spine, head and foot bands, 60-lb. acid-free paper, 7 x 10. (Sample covers above)

INDIVIDUAL: $44.95 ea plus $5.00 shipping.

SET: $160.00 plus $12.00 shipping

WE ARE YOUR SOLE SOURCE PROVIDER. NOT AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE AT ANY PRICE. No one else will have these books: Contact sales@savasbeatie.com or call 916-941-6896 and speak with Stephanie or Lisa.

ABOUT: The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under Brig. Gen. George Thomas "Tige" Anderson in Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Until now, no biographical roster of their members has ever been published. These Georgians saw it all, from the bloody battle of First Manassas through the ferocious combat of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the long siege of Petersburg. They finally furled their banners at Appomattox. Nearly 5,000 men passed through these four Georgia regiments. These rosters offer a long overdue record of these men.

Each roster is organized by company in a simple and easy-to-use format. Entries feature full names (if known), promotions, demotions, casualties, transfers, and resignations for every rank-an unprecedented look into men and the structure and evolution of these organizations. They include the most comprehensive examination of the personnel originally enlisted and their subsequent service histories within these units in chronological order for the first time.

Compiler and author Richard Allen has spent nearly two decades researching scores of archives and other sources to prepare these rosters. He utilized primary sources such as the Official Records, Compiled Service Records, newspaper accounts, diaries, letters, census information, burial records, and a variety of documents from both published sources and private collections. Students of the Civil War, genealogists, and enthusiasts of Georgia history will find these rosters invaluable. Everyone who uses them owes Rick Allen a hearty, and heartfelt, "thank you!"
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A 1990 graduate of the Maryland Institute of Art, Rick Allen is a lifelong student of the American Civil War. The Maryland native spent a large part of his youth roaming the battlefields of the Eastern Theater and has remained a student of the Civil War ever since. He spent fifteen years researching the history and composition of the men who composed the four Georgia infantry regiments featured in these rosters.
Out and About
Here are some photos from a select few recent events. Now out with Spring and onto Summer--our busiest season of the year!
 
Congratulations to author William J. Miller. In this photo, he receives the Excellence in Preservation Award from Leigh Devier of the Shenandoah County Historical Society. The society recognized Miller's book Decision at Tom's Brook: George Custer, Thomas Rosser and the Joy of the Fight for preserving and interpreting the story of The Burning in Shenandoah County and of the Battle of Tom's Brook in October 1864. Photo by Janice E. Miller of Miller Photography & Digital Imaging in Front Royal.
 
A Single Blow authors Phill Greenwalt and Rob Orrison at the Battle of Lexington Re-enactment Weekend. Thanks to the Cary Memorial Library for hosting their presentation and book signing.

Author Michael C. Hardy's talk and book signing at McKay Books in Winston-Salem, NC was well attended. He discussed his latest release, General Lee's Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, and signed many copies for readers.

Author Christopher Loperfido had a nice event in Washington to discuss his new release Death, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865. The book should be read by every student of the Civil War to better understand and come to grips with what awaited the wounded and the medical teams once the generals were finished with their work.
 
SPECIAL OFFER : Order a book by any author mentioned above today using coupon code FREEMEDIA and we'll cover the ship charge. Order here now.
Author Events
There are many events on our calendar for this month (and beyond!). Be sure to click here to see our full author event calendar.



Now Under Contract...
Two new titles for our Emerging Civil War series!
  • Grant's Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864 by Sean Chick
     
  • The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862
    by Michael E. Block
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