Sarah has published seven books, both non-fiction and historical fiction, and has an essays published in several history collections.
To purchased copies, please order through the publishers’ websites or through Amazon.com – the links are included below with each book.
Non-Fiction Books
Glorious Courage: The Life of Confederate John Pelham in the Army of Northern Virginia
Published in 2025, Savas Beatie. (Part of the Emerging Civil War Series)
Decisions at Chancellorsville
Published in 2025, University of Tennessee Press. (Part of the Command Decisions in America’s Civil War Series)
War in the Western Theater
Published in 2024, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
Call Out The Cadets: The Battle of New Market
Published in 2019, Savas Beatie. (Part of the Emerging Civil War Series)
Essay Collections
Sarah has articles or essays in these published collections.
Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song
One essay – “Marching Against Dixie”
Published in 2020, Southern Illinois University Press. (Part of the Engaging the Civil War Series)
The Civil War and Pop Culture
Three essays
Published in 2023, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
Fallen Leaders
Four essays
Published in 2023, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
The Civil War on the Water
Two essays
Published in 2023, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
Civil War Monuments & Memory
One essay
Published in 2022, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
Grant vs. Lee
Four essays
Published in 2022, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
The Summer of ’63: Gettysburg
One essay
Published in 2021, Savas Beatie. (Part of the 10th Anniversary Emerging Civil War Series)
Journal of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era: Volume 9
One essay
Published in 2025, McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University.
Historical Fiction
Sarah started her professional writing well-researched historical fiction. She continues to write this genre to share history to explore its creativity and weave historical context and details into stories to reach new audiences. She believes, though, that it is important to differentiate between the genres of non-fiction and fiction.
Blue, Gray & Crimson
Follow fourteen-year-old Betsy Westmore and her family from the first Confederate raid into the Gettysburg community, through the battle and aftermath and to the day of Lincoln’s famous address. More…
Published in 2015, Gazette665.
Lighthouse Loyalty
Set in 1867, this historical novel follows Susan Rose Arnold – a lighthouse keeper’s daughter – as she discovers the Civil War’s effects which cast dark shadows two years after the conflict ended. More…
Published in 2017, Gazette665.
With Gladness
Ten short, inspirational stories set in ten different eras of America’s holiday past. More…
Published in 2016, Gazette665
