Savas Beatie: 172 books
Battle of Big Bethel
Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
“A comprehensive study of the Civil War’s first major battle . . . well leavened with strategic and political context” (Robert E. L. Krick, author of Staff Officers in Gray).
Battle of Big Bethel is the first full-length treatment of the small but consequential June 1861 Virginia battle...
Triumph and Defeat
The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel’s new book Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2.
Following...
Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith
From Virginia's Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most colorful and controversial generals.
Winner of the 2013 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Book Award for Southern History
Nominated for the 2014 Virginia Book Award for Nonfiction
Despite a life full of drama, politics, and adventure,...
by Cunningham O. Edward
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
The bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh (April 6-7 1862) changed the entire course of the American Civil War. The stunning Northern victory thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston and forever buried the...
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
South Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The definitive soldier’s-eye view of the Battle of Antietam—the bloodiest day in American history.
A veteran of the Battle of Antietam, Ezra A. Carman served as a colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry. After the horrific fighting of September 17, 1862, he recorded in his diary that he was...
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
The Civil War's Last Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, fought March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Confederate cavalry, led by Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, launched a savage surprise attack on the sleeping camp of Maj....
Rashness of That Hour
Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
WINNER, 2010, DR. JAMES I. ROBERTSON LITERARY PRIZE FOR CONFEDERATE HISTORY AWARD
WINNER, 2011, THE BACHELDER-CODDINGTON LITERARY AWARD, GIVEN BY THE ROBERT E. LEE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
No commander in the Army of Northern Virginia suffered more damage to his reputation...
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a...
The Chickamauga Campaign—Barren Victory
The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
"Now in paperback, Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War.
The first installment, A Mad Irregular Battle, introduced readers...
Lincoln's Greatest Journey
Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24–April 8, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
From a New York Times–bestselling author, “a vivid account of Lincoln’s sixteen days at the front in Virginia” (James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom).
March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man....
Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front
The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle.
By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter...
The Maps of Gettysburg
An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3–July 13, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil.
Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg—but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex...
by Bradley M. Gottfried
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
More academic and photographic accounts on the battle of Gettysburg exist than for all other battles of the Civil War combined—and for good reason. The three days of maneuver, attack, and counterattack consisted of scores of encounters, from corps-size actions to small unit engagements. Despite...
Challenges of Command in the Civil War
Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Dr. Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on “Civil War Generals and Generalship.” The subsequent volume will explore “Civil War Strategy, Operations,...