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Ms. Kenya Savas
 








Dear SB fans. 

I am bummed. Yes, my feelings are deeply hurt. 

So Mom and Pop were talking about their upcoming trip to Gettysburg yesterday to meet with a couple dozen SB authors and a lot of reading fans for some battlefield talks and air-conditioned late-afternoon panel discussions. 

Pop caught me in the guest bedroom, and it went something like this . . .

  
Pop:  "Kenya, what the heck are you doing in here?"

Kenya: "Packing for Gettysburg. I need help getting these boxes to fit."

Pop: "And why in God's name would you be going to Gettysburg?"

Kenya: "Opportunity. I want to chase Mark Wade up and down Seminary Ridge until he has nothing on but his birthday suit. By the way, will my bag fly free?"

Pop: "No one needs to see that. And unpack."

Kenya: "You're not taking me? After all I do for your company?"
 
Mom: "Kenya, they won't let you on a plane!"

Kenya: "Mom, I'll wear dark glasses and use a white cane and pretend I'm a service dog." 

Mom (laughing): "Oh, sweetie, that isn't how that works."

Kenya: "This is on my bucket list. I have to meet the Frass at The Mine and have him sign a book." 

Pop: "What? You don't read! And why is that new box of Milk Bones in the suitcase nearly empty?"

Kenya: "I got hungry. Packing for a long trip is exhausting."

Pop: "You're grounded. No pun intended."

So, the big news is I won't be meeting any of you OR one of my heroes, William Frassinito in Gettysburg. Keep reading for exciting details on the trip!   

The OTHER big new is we are now taking pre-orders for first release in the Savas Beatie Essential Gettysburg Series! Hurry. Seriously. Hurry. Keep reading to get the details and then send that email or make the call, as necessary . . .

THE SUMMER BOOKS KEEP POURING IN . . . 
Check out the rest of this newsletter for all the details!

Since I won't see you until after the Fourth of July, be thankful for what we have and for the freedoms we enjoy and usually take for granted. Be safe. 

Loving Woofs,

Miss Kenya

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 IT'S TIME. Taking pre-orders for Book # 1 of
The Savas Beatie Essential Gettysburg Series













Time to pre-order to reserve your copy, AND to guarantee you get the same # each time for each new release. No payment is needed at this time.

TITLE: "Over a Wide, Hot . . . Crimson Plain": The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863

AUTHOR: Elwood Christ (deceased)

NEW FOREWORD: James Hessler (author of The Peach Orchard at Gettysburg and Sickles at Gettysburg)

SPECIFICATIONS: 3-piece high quality cloth case, with vol. # of series stamped on the spine / Series name stamped on front / 80# Rainbow hemp end sheets / sewn binding /  70-lb. matte white art paper /  bound-in silk ribbon / matching head and foot bands / facsimile of original edition /  240 pp.

PRINT RUN: 700 copies

SIGNED/NUMBERED: All 700 will be hand-numbered. However, only #s 1-200 will be signed by the publisher next to the SB logo AND include a special newly designed Essential Series bookplate signed by James Hessler.
 
PRICE: Just $35.00 + $6.00 shipping (media in box, well packed, with tracking). 
 
RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2021.

SOLE SUPPLIER: This edition will not be available from any other source. Savas Beatie is your sole provider. 

HOW TO ORDER. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Send an email to Books@savasbeatie.com (click to activate). If we have your credit card information on file, there is no need to do anything else. We will let everyone know when the books are coming and we will not charge your card until they are ready to ship. IF WE DO NOT have your card or address from previous orders, send the email so you are in our system and call us to provide your credit card info. We keep it all very secure. 

SAMPLE COVER AND SPINE:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series Editor: Meet Mitchell Yockelson. We wanted a fresh set of eyes on the campaign and battle. Mitch is an award-winning military historian, editor, and investigative archivist with the National Archives. He has studied the Civil War for much of his life, but has primarily published on other military topics. His books include Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 (2016), Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I (2016), The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy (2020), and much more, including articles and book reviews. Mitch is a former professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
 
We have outstanding original titles under active development for the series!

Feel free to spread the word, and as always thank you for your ongoing support of the American Civil War, independent publishing, and battlefield preservation. It all matters. A lot. 

--Theodore P. Savas

Join Us in Gettysburg!
THE THIRD SAVAS BEATIE GETTYSBURG MEETUP
August 12-15, 2021
 
Mark your calendars now . . . This is informal and FREE. 
 
Have fun and learn while you meet some of your favorite authors, get your books signed, take pictures, ask questions, sneak more books home, and much more.

WHEN: August 12 (Thursday evening get together at 8:00 p.m. at O'Rourke's if you are in town), and then the 13th, 14th, and part of the 15th (Fri, Sat and optional Sunday morning fun).

WHERE: Gettysburg National Military Park. We will announce the schedule here, our website, and on Facebook. You simply meet us when and where the event is taking place, and off we go.

LODGING AND FOOD:  On your own.

CARPOOLING: If we have too many, that could be a problem. If you know someone, arrange to carpool once you are there to cut down on traffic. 

NO NEED TO CALL, EMAIL, SIGN UP OR SEND MILK BONES TO KENYA. All the latest will be on Facebook and in this newsletter. 

FRIDAY MORNING TALKS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
(Time and speaker is tentative and may change) 

1
RICK SCHAUS
General Meade and the Third Day of the Battle

2
MIKE HARRIS
(author of Brandywine and Germantown)
Archer's Brigade vs. The Iron Brigade on Day 1
 
3
BILL GRIFFITH 
(author of A Handsome Flogging and Licensed Battlefield Guide)
The Union Artillery and the Second Day of Gettysburg 
 
BRING-YOUR-OWN MEAL LUNCH (no alcohol) AT THE LIONS PAVILLION ON LONG LANE
 
FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE HERITAGE CENTER
(in air conditioned splendor)
 
4
CHARLIE KNIGHT
Robert E. Lee's Civil War
 
5
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH FIVE SAVAS BEATIE AUTHORS & MODERATOR THEODORE P. SAVAS

Now, just imagine the fun we will have Saturday evening!

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SATURDAY MORNING TALKS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
(Time and speaker is tentative and may change) 

1
DAVID POWELL
(author of just about every book on Chickamauga)
Barksdale's Charge Against the Peach Orchard
 
2
JOHN HORN  / WITH CHARLIE KNIGHT
The Big Mystery: Mahone's Virginia Brigade on Seminary Ridge
 
3
ERIC J. WITTENBERG 
(author of "The Devil's to Pay" and much more)
Buford and the Federal Cavalry on the Morning of July 1
(This will be at least 2 hours long or more)
 
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE HERITAGE CENTER
(in air conditioned splendor)
 
4
SCOTT MINGUS
(author of Flames Beyond Gettysburg and many others)
The Confederate Thrust toward Harrisburg and the Susquehanna River, June 1863
 
5
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH FIVE DIFFERENT SAVAS BEATIE AUTHORS & MODERATOR THEODORE P SAVAS
 
 
AUTHORS WHO ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND (note, this could change without warning)
 
Theodore P. Savas /  Sarah Closson (SB Author liaison!)
Eric Wittenberg / Alex Rossino
Rick Schaus / Tom Clemens
Billy Griffith /  David Powell
Jim Hessler / John Horn
Charlie Knight / Brad Gottfried
Mike Harris / Derek D. Maxfield
Brian Swartz / Gene Barr
Dwight S. Hughes
Joe Boslet / Scott Mingus
Kevin Pawlak / Adolfo Ovies
Ernest Dollar / Alann Schmidt
Rachael Mellen / Scott Fink
John Michael Priest
and the infamous Mark Wade 
 
Please note that the list of authors is being updated regularly and several more may also be coming.

 NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE
Don't miss out on these new releases!
 
Call the office at 916-941-6896, visit our website, or email us to order your copies.  
 

 

Gettysburg, the largest land battle on the North American continent, has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination.  
 
 
 
This work is a compilation of the favorite blogs, talks, and podcasts delivered by some of the Emerging Civil War public historians on this topic - anthologized, revised, and updated, together with several original pieces.
  
 

Through hundreds of photographs, new maps and a fresh consideration of Grant's Virginia strategy and the generalship of Butler and Beauregard, this book explains the plans, events, and repercussions of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign.
 
 

The author takes the reader on campaign in the year 1777 and through the winter encampment, detailing the various changes that took place within Valley Forge that ultimately led to the success of the American cause.  
 
Audio Feature and a Contest!

We are pleased to announce that the award-winning Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863 by Dave Powell and Eric Wittenberg is now available in audio.
  
This brilliant campaign changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater, however, few people today even know about it. The complex and fascinating campaign included deceit, hard marching, fighting, and incredible luck-both good and bad. Powell and Wittenberg mined hundreds of archival and firsthand accounts to craft a splendid study of this overlooked campaign that set the stage for the Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, the removal of Rosecrans and Bragg from the chessboard of war, the elevation of U.S. Grant to command all Union armies, and the early stages of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.

Congrats to our June audio contest winners: Rex P. and Maury H.

Don't miss your chance! Answer this trivia question to be entered to win your FREE audio copy: 

What stream did the 1st Michigan Engineers bridge in a week?

Email your answer to books@savabeatie.com. Winners will be chosen at random.

Bachelder Color Map DEAL -- Don't Delay!

We still have copies of the full size color Warren Map available.

HERE IS THE DEAL . . . FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
 
We have only 5(FIVE) of the full-color frameable OVERSIZE Warren maps depicting the morning of July 3, 1863 as troops prepare for Pickett's Charge. This map is poster-size 27" x 35" or so, full color, on 100-lb matte art stock. It is lovely.
 
We also have varying numbers of the black and white oversize Bachelder maps....print overruns.
 
BUY: One of the Warren maps for $15.00 and pay the shipping (so after checkout your total with shipping will be $28.00).
 
THE DEAL
 
PICK ONE FREE: one of the remaining Bachelder maps:
 
DAY 1: SOLD OUT 
DAY 2: 14
DAY 3: 96
DAY 3 CAVALRY (#10) (2 maps on one large page): 70
DAY 3 CAVALRY (#12) (2 maps on one large page): 61
 
Just note it in the order notes which map you would like. That's it.
   
 
A Look Inside a Customer Library - Bob G.
 
This month, Bob shares his library photo and answers the following questions. If you are interested in having your library featured, please email us. Take it away, Bob!  
 
 
1.) How old were you when you got the Civil War "bug" and when did you begin collecting Civil War books? 
I was about 7 years old when I got bit by the Civil War bug. My father bought Bruce Catton's "American Picture History of the Civil War" at that time. Not sure if he ever got to read it as I spent hours pouring over it. I found a novel about the 20th Maine called "The Muddy Road to Glory" by Stephen W. Meader at my Elementary School library, took it out and read it 4 or 6 times before I moved on to Jr. High School. I recently found a copy and purchased it on Amazon and plan to give it to one of my grandsons. During the same period my father would be sure to stop at Gettysburg when our vacation travels took us anywhere near the battlefield. All this combined with Christmas presents for Marx "Blue and Gray Battle Set" and various Britains toy soldiers had me helplessly hooked. Once I became a working man I started picking up Civil War titles whenever I visited the Morningside bookstore, Gettysburg or could find Civil War books at the bookstore. Next came a subscription to "Time-Life Library of the Civil War", acquiring titles of the "Time-Life Collectors Library of the Civil War" followed by the advent of Amazon which facilitated the ballooning of my Civil War library to its present number.

2.) How many books do you have and how do you organize your library? 
I have over 400 books on the Civil War. The books are loosely organized by autobiographies, battles/campaigns, biographies of generals, various series, regiments, service branch, publisher.
 
3.) What topic dominates your shelves? How many have you collected?
I have the most books pertaining to my favorite topic, personal reminisces. The count is up to over 100.
 
4.) If you had to pick a special favorite collectible/rare/special book in your collection, what is it and how did you come to acquire it?
My top 10 or so favorites in no particular order are:
· W.W. Blackford "War Years with Jeb Stuart"
· John C. West "A Texan in Search of a Fight"
· William A. Fletcher "Rebel Soldier Front and Rear, Memoirs of a Confederate"
· Henry B. McClellan "Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry"
· Heros von Borcke "Memoirs of the Confederate War of Independence"
· Edward Moore "A Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson"
· Edward Porter Alexander "Fighting for the Confederacy"
· Harry Gilmor "Four Years in the Saddle"
· Campbell Brown "Civil War with Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia"
· Randolph McKim "A Soldiers Recollections"
· James Cooper Nisbet "Four Years on the Firing Line"
· William Thomas Poague "Gunner With Stonewall"
· Henry Kyd Douglas "I Rode with Stonewall"
· McHenry Howard "Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier"

I acquired many of these books by scouring Bibliographies of the many books on battles, campaigns and biographies. Authors and publishers like Douglas Southall Freeman and Morningside were particularly helpful when they provided a small recap in their books.

5.) I collect Civil War books because...
I find the history and the exploits of the participants fascinating and in large part because I just cannot not help myself from doing so.    
 
Now Available in Digital
5 Things with Dwight Hughes
This month, our Five Things column features Dwight Hughes, author of the new ECW title, Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862. Here, Dwight tells of five fascinating facts which he discovered along the way while writing this book. I am sure you will agree.
Take it away Dwight...


 
First. A revolutionary technology? The common conception of the Battle of Hampton Roads holds that in one day all navies became obsolete to the surprise and amazement of the world. The engagement certainly astounded the public, but the trend was not new to naval and engineering professionals. Steam propulsion, heavy naval artillery throwing explosive shells, and iron armor had been improving for half a century. The United States Navy had been in the forefront of the first two innovations with the powerful USS Merrimack frigate class-traditional wind-driven, wooden hull designs with broadside batteries and auxiliary steam engines. Having no empire to defend, however, Americans were content to observe as Europeans engaged in an arms race, conducting expensive experiments in the unproven technology of iron armor. In 1859-1860, France and Great Britain first deployed formidable sea-going ironclads and were rapidly building more. Hampton Roads popularized developments that were well underway.
 
Second. The ironclad threat was not just from the South. Suddenly in the summer of 1861, the United States required ironclads and had none, but the naval threat was not primarily from the South, which all assumed could quickly be overcome; it was from across the Atlantic. Great Britain (probably followed by France) threatened to employ the world's most powerful navy-augmented with ironclads-on behalf of the Confederacy. The conflict in America caused severe disruptions to British trade, finance, economics, and domestic tranquility. A third war with the former mother country loomed, a potentially disastrous repeat of 1812-15 while
simultaneously suppressing a domestic rebellion. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles prioritized ironclads to counter the foreign danger, approving two traditional warship designs with iron cladding. Rebels also were building ironclads, notably the one in Hampton Roads that would become the CSS Virginia. The strange proposal submitted to Welles by Swedish engineer John Ericsson just might help with that problem, but it was strictly experimental.
 
Third. Transformative combat. Before Hampton Roads, Northern public opinion was decidedly ambivalent concerning this strange watercraft with seventy men encased in iron, mostly below the surface. Monitor's enclosed, cramped, artificial spaces-foreshadowing future submarines-were a radical departure from open decks and high rigging of a traditional man-of-war. Tall warships had always inspired awe, but so far, they looked much the same even when driven by steam as well as sail. Industrialization, however, was transforming warfare. In one generation, timeless horse-drawn conveyance had given way to huge, puffing locomotives while soldiers with rifled muskets who began the conflict standing up in open fields, manfully confronting the enemy face to face would end up burrowing into trenches and crouching behind elaborate fortifications. Technology favored defense. Little Monitor redefined the relationship between men and machines in war, challenging ancient concepts of honor and valor. It was not clear beforehand where she fit in the martial revolutions. Was she even a ship or just an ironclad, two-gun battery that hopefully floated and propelled itself?
 
Fourth. The USS Monitor: A successful design? Ericsson's Monitor was a steam-propelled, iron-plated raft with a revolving cylindrical gun turret and two 11-inch Dahlgren smoothbores. The flat expanse of deck was barely a foot and a half above the surface, the idea inspired by Swedish timber rafts. Ericsson never claimed to have invented the turret, only to have been the first to successfully deploy it. He would pay royalties to an American inventor who held patent for a similar design; a British competitor was testing another model. The
Swede's unique vessel met a particular need at a specific time. After the battle, the Union caught "Monitor fever" constructing fifty of them in a bewildering range of one, two, and three-turret classes. But as a warship type, monitors were of limited utility-operationally limited to shallow, calm waters and not effective against shore fortifications, although they did help neutralize several Confederate ironclads. The most important innovation, the turret, would evolve onto twentieth-century battleships.
 
Fifth. A formidable foe. The design of the CSS Virginia, although not revolutionary, was perhaps elegant in simplicity: An iron-encased shed on top of the wooden hull and engineering plant of the former USS Merrimack. The casemate featured 4 inches of iron plate backed by 2 feet of pine and oak enclosing a powerful, ten-gun battery. Northerners doubted Monitor's ability to overcome this behemoth. "We all expected to see the 'Merrimac' destroy her," wrote one witness. Secretary of War Stanton feared Virginia would come up the Potomac, demolish the Capitol, and then go to New York and Boston and destroy those cities. The Rebel ironclad was a paradigm of Confederate strategy and execution-the brainchild of innovative, dedicated, and courageous men, but the victim of hurried design, untested technology, poor planning, and a dearth of critical resources. Nevertheless, she was viewed as an existential threat to the Union. Virginia challenged the entire U.S Navy, destroyed two capital warships, threatened the strategically vital blockade, disrupted General McClellan's plans to take Richmond, and spawned over 30 successors.
Excerpt Central!
 
ExcerptsDid 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. 
 
Edwin C. Bearss,
 
David and Audrey Ladd, eds,
 
John Bachelder,
 
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