The Retreat Book

We turned in the manscript of the retreat book to Ted Savas last night. It’s hard to believe that, after all of these many years of work, it’s finally finished.

Here are some statistics about the book that you might find interesting:

–There are 18 chapters and an epilogue, along with one appendix. There is a foreword by Noah Andre Trudeau and a preface by Ted Alexander.
–Just the 18 chapters and the epilogue (does NOT include endnotes): 132,944 words.
–With the endnotes, bibliography, tours, appendix, etc., added: 191,964 words.
–There are 1,534 endnotes.
–There will be 16 maps.
–There will be approximately 50 illustrations.
–The bibliography contains over 800 entries, meaning that we looked at more than 800 sources in researching and writing the book. Of those, over 600 are primary sources.
–There are two driving tours, one of the route of the Wagon Train of Wounded, and one that follows the fighting as Meade pursued Lee’s army. Both driving tours contain GPS coordinates.

I’m very proud of it. I can’t wait to see it in print. It’s going to be a BIG book.