New Meeting January 11, 2023
VFW Post 3233 has completed repairs and has reopened. Please join us to kick off our 30th Campaign!
Gordon Balme
Harpers Covers the Civil War
January 11, 2023
During the Civil War, artists visited battles sites to capture the scene with their skilled hands. Harper's Weekly published many of these illustrations.
Wally Hoppe
Jackson's Valley Campaign
October 12, 2022
Also known as the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, Wally will present an overview and discussion.
John Horn
The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864
February 9, 2022
The Weldon Railroad ran from Petersburg, Virginia to Weldon, North Carolina, where it connected with the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, and the Deep South. Lee regarded it as indefensible but defended it successfully from the beginning of the Siege of Petersburg in June 1864 until the Federals severed it in August 1864. The railroad is America's Railroad of Death not because of the deaths in battle in the fighting for the railroad, but because of the deaths among the approximately 9,000 Federal prisoners taken in the fighting.
Award winning author John Horn has published articles in Civil War Times Illustrated and America’s Civil War, and his books include “The Destruction of the Weldon Railroad”, and “The Petersburg Campaign”. Horn co-edited “Civil War Talks: The Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans” with Hampton Newsome and Dr. John G. Selby, published by the University Press of Virginia in 2012.
The Siege of Petersburg:
The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864
John Horn’s outstanding tactical battle study emphasizes the context and consequences of every action and is supported by numerous maps and grounded in hundreds of primary sources. Unlike many battle accounts, Horn puts Grant’s Fourth Offensive into its proper perspective not only in the context of the Petersburg Campaign and the war, but in the context of the history of warfare.
“…a superior piece of Civil War scholarship…”—The late Edwin C. Bearss, former Chief Historian of the National Park Service
To order and view more of Mr. Horn’s work, visit amazon.com.
Meet Theodore P. Savas
December 8, 2020
A Virtual Presentation on Publishing Your Civil War Book
Theodore P. Savas graduated from The University of Iowa College of Law in 1986 (With Distinction) and practiced in Silicon Valley for many years. He co-founded Savas Woodbury Publishers (later Savas Publishing) in 1990, and sold company to an East Coast publisher in 2001. He began Savas Beatie in 2004.
Phillip Greenwalt
November 10, 2020: Speaking on his book Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865
and the end of the Carolina Campaign
Greenwalt is a full-time contributor to the blog
Emerging Civil War.
Learn more about Phillip Greenwalt’s books at Amazon.
Philip Leigh
October 13, 2020: “The Current Status of Confederate Monuments”
Leigh's articles appear in the New York Times as well as on The American Spectator.
Learn more about Philip Leigh’s books at Amazon.
Read his blog at Civil War Chat by Phil Leigh.
Edward Achorn
Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration March 10, 2020
Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, is the deputy editorial pages editor of The Providence (R.I.) Journal. He has won numerous writing awards and his work appears in Best Newspaper Writing, 2007-2008, CQ Press. Reach him at eachorn@projo.com.
Author of Every Drop of Blood
“Edward Achorn’s rich history brings the inauguration of 1865 to life.”
–The Economist
“Meticulously chronicles President Lincoln’s
March 1865 inauguration in this kaleidoscopic history. Drawing from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports, Achorn frames a poignant yet familiar portrait of Lincoln with the accounts of several figures
who converged in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural address… He skillfully plumbs his sources for colorful details and draws memorable character sketches. History buffs will savor this evocative narrative.
”—Publishers Weekly
Read Mr. Achorn’s interview in The New York Times.
Order and view more of Mr. Achorn’s work at amazon.com.
