Newsmax calls Love & Valor the “most moving Civil War love story ever told” - Bill Hoffmann of Newsmax, Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Love & Valor was broadcast on Newsmax cable channel on Saturday October 17, 2015 {CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE}
 

Love and Valor was the featured Civil War book by the Smithsonian for the month of October 2001. (The October 2001 edition of The Smithsonian Civil War E-Mail Newsletter.)

Jacob Ritner was a featured character in “Georgia’s Civil War,” a four part series produced by Georgia Public Television, shown in conjunction with Ken Burns’ Civil War in September 2002. Ritner’s letters served as a main voice of the North during the Atlanta campaign.

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.)

One of the premiere Civil War brass bands in the country, the First Brigade Band independently created a full music program around Jacob and Emeline’s letters. {CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR WEBSITE}

In May 2005, Harvard University Press published Daughters of the Union by Professor Nina Silber of Boston University, which details the lives of Northern women during the Civil War. Harvard University Press, May 2005. Love and Valor was a primary source document for Daughters of the Union, with references to Love and Valor on 16 pages.

In October 2005, Knopf Publishing Group published Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865 by Steven E. Woodworth. Jacob Ritner is mentioned on 10 pages of this book, and the title, “Nothing But Victory” comes from a Jacob Ritner quote, which the author acknowledges in the introduction of the book.

Savannah – A Historical Portrait by Margaret Wayt DeBolt, published March 2002, includes Jacob’s description of Bonaventure Cemetery which he wrote in January 1865.

Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel chose sections from two letters of Love and Valor 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.

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 (voicemail) or email mail@PeterBonner.com. Jacob Ritner fought in the Atlanta Campaign, including the Battle of Atlanta and Battle of Jonesboro featured in Gone With The Wind.  {CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR WEBSITE}