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Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner

The Stories of Willie MacQueen

Sigourney Press is a small publisher, specializing in Civil War, Iowa, and Scottish history. Our first publication was Love and Valor - Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner, which has received numerous honors, including

• Charles Larimer served as a consultant to Greystone Communications, which is producing a documentary for A&E Television Network to accompany the release of the movie Cold Mountain in December 2003.

• “Georgia's Civil War” four part series produced by Georgia Public Television, shown in conjunction with Ken Burns' Civil War in September 2002. Jacob Ritner was a featured character in this PBS show, and the primary voice of the North.

• Savannah - A Historical Portrait by Margaret Wayt DeBolt, March 2002 Revised Edition - includes Jacob's description of Bonaventure Cemetery written in January 1865

• The Smithsonian Civil War E-Mail Newsletter - October 2001 - Featured Civil War Book.

• Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel chose sections from two letters of Love and Valor that were included in his 2001 Memorial Day radio show called “War Letters.” This two hour program was broadcast nationally. In Chicago this was broadcast on his home station of WFMT FM 98.7.

• Chicago Tribune Tempo Section - Feature Article on August 31, 2000. (Numerous other newspaper articles, including the Savannah Morning News, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, Sioux City Journal, Burlington Hawkeye, Mt. Pleasant News, Ames Tribune and others.)

• The University of Maine at Farmington has added Love and Valor to the required reading list for their Spring 2001 semester course on Civil War Literature.

• The official Gone With The Wind tour guides in Atlanta and Jonesboro now tell several stories from Love and Valor, when presenting Northern stories to counterbalance the Southern stories during their tours. Contact Peter Bonner of Historical and Hysterical Histories; (770) 477-8864 (voice mail) or email mail@PeterBonner.com; http://www.peterbonner.com/. Jacob Ritner fought in the Atlanta Campaign, including the Battle of Atlanta and Battle of Jonesboro featured in Gone With The Wind.

• We have recently released Tales of Dunlichity - The Stories of Willie MacQueen, based on stories from rural Scotland near Inverness. Mr. Ray Collier, the nature writer for the Manchester Guardian, who was also a friend and neighbour of Willie MacQueen, recently reviewed Tales of Dunlichity in an article in the Highland News.