When: November 14th
Where: La Navona, 154 North Hamilton Road. Gahanna Ohio 43230
Time: 7pm
Speaker: Ted Savas
Topic: A Dying Prodigy, Fake News, and the Fall of the Old South. The War Outside my Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Gresham, 1860-1865.
An in-depth discussion about how one of the most important Civil War Diaries was found, how it came to be published, the genius of the young teenager who wrote it, and the amazing insights we gain from it.
Theodore P. Savas is the Managing Director of Savas-Beatie, a leading independent trade publisher in military and general history titles.
He graduated from University of Iowa College of Law in 1986 (with distinction), and practiced law in the Silicon Valley for many years. Realizing one day he would have to face St. Peter, he decided to go into honest work. Ted taught business and history classes for about 20 years, and has written or edited a dozen books (published in 7 languages) including A Guide to the Bas of the American Revolution, Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic, Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold.
His hobbies include scuba diving, smoking good cigars, drinking expensive gin, and playing bass and keyboards in the hard rock band Arminius.
In connection with Ted’s visit, Savas Beatie is making the following offer to all our members. Please note that the offer is open through October 31st, so please act soon.
We have set up a special for COCWRT members only.
35% off any of our titles currently available, a signed author book plate with each book, AND $5.00 flat rate shipping for as many as they would like. ( The ONLY books this will not apply to are the Georga Regimental Roster set by Rick Allen. If that is ordered, we will cancel it on our end)
So here is how it works.
1. Go to http://www.savasbeatie.com/, set up a free account, and order 1 or more titles (no limit). Several payment methods are available, OR they can call the office at 916-941-6896 and place their order.
2. Columbus members use code CWRTCO
That will take 35% off in the cart at checkout, etc.
3. This offer EXPIRES on the night of October 31st to allow us time to process the order. The books will be shipped to the Columbus RT and dispersed at the meeting.
or any art. He’s been published in the journal Civil War History, The Civil War Monitor, Civil War Times, and America’s Civil War, and has been profiled in the American Battlefield Trust’s Hallowed Ground. He was a Contributing Writer for America’s Civil War and is a Digital History Advisor for The Civil War Monitor. He serves on the board of directors of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, and has served as its vice-president and newsletter editor. He’s presented programs on First Battle of Bull Run related and other topics to organizations in six states and the District of Columbia, and has orgainized and/or led tours of the battlefield of First Bull Run.
For Hill and the other Culpeper men engaged, this was a personal battle to liberate their homes, friends, and family from the Union occupation. Today, local citizens are coming together to ensure that this battle and the valor displayed by both armies will never be forgotten.
stirring events in Culpeper and Fauquier Counties. Mike also has been collecting photos, drawings and first person accounts of events, both significant and mundane that occurred in the region during the war.
Mike retired from the United States Air Force in 2001; serving in Europe, Asia and the United States. He continues to support the U.S. Government as a Lead Associate for the consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton. Part of his work is as a Gettysburg Staff Ride Instructor for Government Intelligence Analysts, focusing on the geospatial and intelligence aspects of the
and a half, the men of the Eleventh Corps have labored under the stigma of being caught by Stonewall Jackson’s surprise attack, throwing away their weapons and running away. This since event colored the reputation of the corps, and especially its many soldiers of German ancestry, with the label of cowardice. In this illustrated PowerPoint presentation based on his newly published history of the Eleventh Corps, Jim Pula will present a new interpretation that is quite different and, as one reviewer said, “stands conventional wisdom on its head.”
County Historical Society); With Courage and Honor: The Role of Oneida County in the Civil War (Ethnic Heritage Studies Series distributed by Syracuse University Press, 2010); The Memoirs of Ludwik Żychliński (Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1993); and The Memoirs of Wladimir Krzyżanowski (R&E Research, 1978). In addition to the Gambrinus Prize, he has been honored three times with the Oskar Halecki Prize for books on ethnic and immigration history, the Rudewicz Medal, and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest’s cavalry was the greatest threat to the long supply line feeding Sherman’s armies as they advanced on Atlanta. Smith marched at the head of his “gorillas,” veteran soldiers who were fresh from the Red River Campaign. Aside from diverting Confederate attention away from Sherman, Smith’s orders were to destroy Southern railroads and confront Forrest in Mississippi. Just weeks earlier, a similar Union expedition had met with disaster at the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, perhaps the greatest victory of Forrest’s military career.
Civil War battlefield: Shiloh. Tom served on four ships and retired in 1998 as a Chief Petty Officer. Not long after retiring he signed on with the National Park Service and has spent the last nineteen years with Shiloh National Military Park. He spent his first five years with the park maintaining the National Cemetery, the mass Confederate burial trenches and other sites across the battlefield. In 2004 Ranger Parson was assigned to the new Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center in Corinth, Mississippi. His research focuses on military activities in North Mississippi and West Tennessee. Tom lives in Corinth with Nita, his wife of 38 years.