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b'August 27, 2018 - Our time machine whirls us back to the Civil War sickbed of 12-year-old LeRoy Wiley Gresham. This young voice of the Old South in Macon, Georgia -- rendered an invalid after a mysterious accident, and ignorant of the tuberculosis marching him towards an early grave -- left us the only diary of a male, teenage non-combatant.\\n\\nSavas Beatie LLC, "Publisher of Historical Titles of Distinction," brings us this poignant, insightful and witty diary for the very first time, edited by Janet E. Croon. The book is The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865. Our guest is Theodore P. Savas -- attorney, author, publishing consultant, agent, and the managing director of Savas Beatie. Ted acquired the diaries and did what historians thought impossible: Added a fresh\\xa0 \\xa0new voice to our understanding of the Civil War.\\n\\nOn top of The War Outside My Window, LeRoy\'s first-person description of spinal tuberculosis is also the only record of its kind in the world. You can deliver into that story in the companion book, I Am Perhaps Dying: The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of Leroy Wiley Gresham, by Dennis A. Rasbach MD FACS and Janet Croon. You can also visit the Gresham home where LeRoy lived, wrote, and died at The 1842 Inn.\\n\\nVisit\\xa0SavasBeatie.com for details, follow them on Twitter at SavasBeattieLLC, and find Janet Croon\'s reflections at TheWarOutsideMyWindow.blogspot.com or Facebook.com/LeRoyWileyGresham.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nCheck out our interviews with these other fine Savas Beatie authors:\\n\\xb7 Gene Barr -- A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign.\\n\\xb7 Noah Andre Trudeau --\\xa0Lincoln\\u2019s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 \\u2013 April 8, 1865.\\n\\xb7 Stephen Davis -- A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864,\\xa0\\xa0and its companion paperback,\\xa0All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peach Tree Creek to the City\\u2019s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864.'