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BREAKING SAVAS BEATIE NEWS!
Meet Your Favorite Authors!
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We are excited to finally announce the upcoming dates
for the 4th Savas Beatie Author - Reader Meetup!
* Friday, August 12th to Sunday, August 14th, 2022 *
We will make Gettysburg our hub and enjoy:
* Antietam ONE FULL DAY *
* Gettysburg ONE FULL DAY *
* A Special Event on Sunday morning *
* Gettysburg Heritage Center for Presentations, Author Panel, and Book Signings *
* Registration Link Coming Soon!! *
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!
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BIG News to be Announced later this Month! Stay Tuned! | |
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WE HAVE A PAIR of really important classic reprint titles that need to be reprinted, and we intend to do them. We will announce them in a couple weeks (on or about Monday, May 16).
As usual, we will sign and # a limited number of each.
IMPORTANT: Please do not call our office for more info. We are still organizing the final touches. We will announce the details soon on our Facebook page,
on the Savas Beatie website, and in future emails.
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Two New Releases this Month! | |
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Check out these new titles shipping this month.
Call the office at 916-941-6896, visit our website, or email us to order your copies.
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5 "Things" with Author Ernest Dollar | |
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This month, our Five Things column features author Ernest Dollar, whose Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina, was released April 2022. Here, Ernest shares five facts he discovered while researching and compiling this book.
Take it away Ernest. . .
1. The unique direction of my book was greatly influenced by a screenplay that I was working on simultaneously about veterans who served in Iraq.
2. Between 1993 and 2000, I worked at the Bennett Place State Historic Site which greatly influenced the genesis and direction of this book.
3. The appendix features a never before seen version of a poem by the first enslaved man in the South to publish a book of poetry, George Moses Horton.
4. The title refers to the Victorian belief that emotions held in the heart could be disturbed by war but also to the line in my wedding vows that the minister failed to recite.
5. Other books dealing with the psychological experience of soldiers look at the entire war or a particular army but this book looks at this on a campaign level.
Click here and buy your copy!
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A Peek into an Author's Library | |
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One of our most popular features: Look Inside a Library continues with SB award-winning author Brian Matthew Jordan sharing his library photos and answering a few questions.
1.) How old were you when you got the Civil War "bug" and when did you begin collecting Civil War books? I was eleven. I've been collecting and studying ever since!
2.) How many books do you have and how do you organize your library? More than 8,000 volumes, line two rooms of my home as well as my office at the university. I organize both chronologically and thematically. Battle and campaign studies--traditional military history--are organized chronologically, from the firing on Fort Sumter to the last guns at Palmito Ranch. Otherwise, the books are arranged thematically: antebellum America; sectionalism and slavery; Union biographies; Confederate biographies; Lincoln studies; Union regimentals; Confederate regimentals; Confederate home front; Union home front; common soldiers; African American soldiers; race, ethnicity, and religion; prisons and guerrillas; legal history and the laws of war; Civil War era politics and political biography; the navies, diplomacy, and foreign affairs; veterans; Reconstruction; and the cultural history of war. The biggest challenge is having books in two locations.
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3.) I have the most books on Union soldiers and regiments, and the count is more than 400.
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? Because mine is a working library, I collect mostly modern scholarship. A significant number of my books have been inscribed to me by their authors, who have become close friends and cherished colleagues through the years. Those are all quite special and can't be replaced.
5.) I collect Civil War books because...I am an active research scholar, and I need a working library. I own complete runs of the major reference sets: the Official Records, the Supplement to the Official Records, the Naval Official Records, the Medical and Surgical Official Records, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Confederate Veteran, the MOLLUS Papers, the Southern Historical Society Papers, and Miller's Photographic History, to name only a few. I own nearly every major Civil War title published in the last thirty years. I love being able to work from my own books in the comfort of my home. I also love the tactile qualities of a book--the careful craftsmanship, the smell of the glue, a deckle edge--and will never own or work from an e-book.
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In the March edition of the Raleigh Magazine, author Ernest Dollar and his new book, Hearts Torn Asunder were featured. Don't forget to read about the "5 Things We Didn't Know." | |
It was another busy month of events for a handful of Savas Beatie authors. Check out where they signed and presented their books. | |
Author Jim Hessler was the featured speaker at the largest round table in the west, the Scottsdale Civil War Round Table. | |
At the New York State Military Museum earlier this month, author Derek Maxfield presented and signed copies of his ECW book, Hellmira. | Author Ken Rutherford was welcomed by the Franklin Civil War Round Table in TN. Not only did Ken have an opportunity to present his book, America's Buried History, he also toured local history sites. | |
The Bennett Place Historic Site hosted author Ernest Dollar and his new book, Hearts Torn Asunder for his first book signing event. | |
The Chicago Civil War Round Table's first Edwin Cole Bearss Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Civil War History was presented to author Jeff Hunt last month. We couldn't be more pleased with whom they selected as their first recipient of this award, and we believe Ed would agree. Congratulations Jeff! | |
Another well-deserved award for author Tim Smith by the Houston Civil War Round Table. The 2022 Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit was presented to Tim after his presentation on his award-winning book, The Real Horse Soldiers. | |
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! | |
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The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command by William Royston Geise
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Washington’s Marines The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777 by Major General Jason Q. Bohm
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