YOU ALL HAVE BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING!

HERE ARE SOME FUN DETAILS OF OUR UPCOMING MEETUP!

First: Do not be left out. This is limited to permit size.

Click HERE to pay the small registration fee

($25 each, $40 per couple. Paypal charges $50.

We will refund $10 back to your SB online account to use as you wish.)

* Antietam ONE FULL DAY *

Friday, August 12, 2022 (carpool/drive. there is no bus.)

FOUR Battlefield Tours Lead By:

*Brad Gottfried*

"The Fight for the Bloody Lane"

*Tom Clemens*

"The Overlooked Advance: Semmes Confederate Brigade at Antietam."  

*M. Chris Bryan*

"Melted Down Their Ranks Like Wax": George Sears Greene's Defense of

the Dunker Church Plateau and Assault into the West Woods"

*Steve Stotelmyer*

"The Fight for Burnside's Bridge"

Optional Tour!

*M. Chris Bryan*

"The Final Slaughter in the Cornfield: Colquitt’s Brigade

at Antietam and Other Findings"

* Gettysburg ONE FULL DAY *

Saturday, August 13, 2022 (carpool/drive. there is no bus.)

THREE Morning Battlefield Tours:

*Mike Harris*

"Bigelow's Battery and the 2nd Day at Gettysburg"

*Scott Mingus*

"The Louisiana Tigers Attack on East Cemetery Hill"

*Charlie Knight*

"I Will be Found in the Advance":

Gen. Lee's Ride from Culpeper to Gettysburg"

Gettysburg Heritage Center (Afternoon) 

*Presentation by Alex Rossino

"The Differences between Gettysburg and Antietam"

*Presentation by Ron Kirkwood*

"Too Much for Human Endurance:

The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg"

*Author Panel*

Four SB authors for a Q and A!

*Author Meet and Greet Book Signings*

(no purchase is necessary) 

*Special Savas Beatie Event at Seminary Ridge*

Sunday, August 14, 2022

* Coffee and bagels* 

 (compliments of an SB author)

*Tour by Dave Powell*

"The Importance of Seminary Ridge to the Battle of Gettysburg"

*Museum Tour*

(discounted price, advance registration) 

Please join the NEW Facebook group page that has been created for this 2022 event. Even if you are still planning or just interested in joining us in August, please click the link below. 

 The FB page is where a bulk of our updates and information will be posted. 

Kenya will be approving members, so no bribing of milk bones. :) 

Link: 

2022 Savas Beatie Meetup Antietam & Gettysburg 

 IMPORTANT: Please do not call our office for more info. We are still putting things in place. Additional details will be announced soon on Facebook,

on the Savas Beatie website, and in future emails.  

We can't wait to see you there!

The Gregory A. Coco Collection is Now in Print

Savas Beatie obtained the rights to publish the late Greg Coco's impressive body of work. We added ten (10) new titles to our line this July 1, in addition to his A Strange and Blighted Land and A Vast Sea of Misery, both of which are perennial bestsellers we already publish.

You can see the entire collection by clicking HERE

Coco, a former Licensed Battlefield Guide and ranger at Gettysburg and a Vietnam veteran, dedicated most of his time to the study of Gettysburg in general, and to the deaths, recovery, and burials portion of the combat in particular. His work was outstanding, and it has been long out of print and commands a high price on the secondary market. Greg passed away in 2009.

These new titles are now available. Spread the word.

HELP US REPRINT THE GETTYSBURG PAPERS, 2 vols., &

THE ANTIETAM OFFICIAL RECORDS 2 vols.!

The response thus far has been strong. We need about 150 pre-orders (no commitment, no payment needed). Just tell us if you are interested in sending an email to books@savasbeatie.com. The price will be very fair and announced in August. If we pull the trigger by the end of July, we expect them about the end of November/early December.

If you like a payment plan (no extra charges, pay over several months), no problem. Just tell us. Our goal is to get quality into your hands. These limited sets generally do NOT fall in value. In fact, they go up. 

** The Antietam Official Records (2 vols.) **

** The Gettysburg Papers (2 vols.), edited by Ken Bandy ** 

As usual, there will be a small number of signed and #'d copies. 

We have some major Antietam releases coming in 2023, including the four-volume The Carmen Papers, which will completely reinvigorate the campaign and make possible a host of new books and articles. The Bachelder Papers are awesome (as many of you know). Believe it or not, The Carmen Papers is better--and with a lot more Confederate material.

We also plan on publishing The Carmen Maps in color, so keep your TV dialed to this station. 

Add in 2-3 other Antietam titles, and you better have a set of the Antietam ORs at hand. As usual, we can only print a smallish run (250?) and the binding and paper will match your Gettysburg set.

 IMPORTANT

Please do not call our office for more info. We are still organizing the final touches,

and do not yet have pricing in place. We will announce the details soon on our

Facebook page, on the Savas Beatie website, and in future emails.

This month, our Five Things column features author Harold Knudsen whose James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War, was released June 2022. Here, Harold shares five facts he discovered while researching and compiling this book.

Take it away, Harold. . .

1) This differs from many mainstream books in that the thesis contradicts many previous (often negative) claims about General Longstreet's performances. In truth, he was a consummate military professional who won many large-scale battles because he was adapting rapidly to "modern" war faster than most of his peers did on both sides. 

2) One of the unique ways this work helps the reader understand the thesis of his "modern" thinking is the numerous comparatives to other battles in other wars and time periods.

3) The four chapters on Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania and the resultant battle at Gettysburg are also a departure from mainstream historiography. Many treatments of Gettysburg focus almost exclusively on the tactical level. The context of this view is primarily an analysis of the operational level issues Lee faced and created; and that General Longstreet had endeavored to steer him on the right course. It highlights the fact that Lee was not a combat arms officer, whereas Longstreet was, which gave him expertise in the use of infantry and artillery Lee did not possess and has been overlooked by many who have written about Gettysburg.

4) As a professional artillery officer, the author provides a detailed explanation in both the main text and in a special appendix explaining why the Confederate artillery preparation on July 3rd, 1863 failed to achieve its objectives. Maps are provided that depict the actual deployment of the batteries and how they should have been positioned to achieve better angles of fire to achieve better results.

5) The reader will find two never published before observations by Robert E. Lee, dictated by one of his young relatives after the war that is quite different from what many mainstream narratives about Lee have said about what he believed. These were found in the notebooks of Cazenove G. Lee kept at the Lee-Fendall House in Alexandria, Virginia.  

Click here and buy your copy!

Peek into an Author's Library . . .

Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina

by author Ernest Dollar

Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

by co-authors Scott Mingus and Joe Owen

News Brief

A bit of shock is good for the soul, right? Well, for author Ernest Dollar, it may have been after learning his new book, Hearts Torn Asunder was reviewed and printed by the New York Times. Congratulations, Ernest! 

It was another busy month of events for a handful of Savas Beatie authors. Check out where they signed and presented their books. 

Author Chris Bryan kicked off the Jacob Rohrbach Inn's Civil War Summer Lecture Series with a presentation on his book, Cedar Mountain to Antietam. 

It was a busy weekend for author Ernest Dollar who presented his book, Hearts Torn Asunder to audiences at the American Civil War Museum in both Appomattox and Richmond.  

The Mechanicsburg Museum in PA hosted author Scott Mingus who presented his book,

Flames Beyond Gettysburg. 

Many thanks to author Harold Knudsen who spent days and hours signing and sending over 125 copies of his book to eager and patient customers who pre-ordered his new title,

James Longstreet and the American Civil War.

Did you know we have excerpts posted on our website? Here are a few, and from now on we will have a list right here for you to view. Happy previewing!

Click here to read an excerpt from When Hell Came to Sharpsburg.

Click here to read an excerpt from Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas.

Click here to read an excerpt from Grant vs. Lee.

Click here to read an excerpt from Dreams of Victory.

Click here to read an excerpt from James Longstreet and the American Civil War.

Click here to read an excerpt from Unceasing Fury.

All part of the hardcover Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series:

• The Civil War on the Water
• Fallen Leaders
• Civil War Monuments and Memory
• The Civil War and Pop Culture

Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War!