I'm pledging the royalties from sales of my books in 2024 toward my fellow author Eric Wittenberg's medical bills. My friend Ted Savas of Savas Beatie inspired my pledge with his contribution toward Eric's medical bills. The royalties are from the following three books::
The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (Savas Beatie, 2019).
This book won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History.
"This is a model of its kind," said Noah Andre Trudeau, author of The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865
The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 (Savas Beatie, 2015)
This is the only book covering the critical August 1864 battles around Petersburg in detail.
"This revised, expanded edition of [Horn's] original 1991 book ranks as the foremost study of Fourth Offensive," wrote the late Richard J. Sommers, author of Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg. "It belongs in every Civil War library,"
The Petersburg Campaign: June 1864 - April 1865 (Combined Books, 1993)
This is the only single volume history of the Petersburg Campaign.
The late Edwin C. Bearss, former chief historian, U. S. National Park Service, said this book "provides an excellent overview of the Petersburg siege and campaigns, and their relation to battle actions in the Shenandoah and on the approaches to Washington."
My royalties from the 2024 sales of these books will go toward my fellow author Eric Wittenberg's medical bills. I only regret that I cannot pledge royalties as co-editor of Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans (University Press of Virginia, 2012), but I waived those royalties prior to that book's publication.
