Tuhi i te haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - Hei taapiri ki te whakaturanga (me David Woodbury) Ko te South Bay Civil War Roundtable i te 1989, ko Savas me tana hoa a Paul Sacra o Richmond, Virginia, i tohu tika me te mahere i te pakanga pakanga a te Pakanga Taua o Payne's Farm (he waahanga o te mutunga o te ngahuru 1863 Mine Run Campaign
), i Orange County, Virginia. I tukuna e Savas ngā mahere me ngā mōhiohio ki tētahi whakahaere tiaki i Fredericksburg. Na tenei, i kaha ake ai te hiahia ki te pakanga me te pakanga, a, i te mutunga, ka mau tonu te whenua me te whakamaori. I uru a Savas ki te haerenga a te kaituhi rongonui a NY Times a Clive Cussler i te tau 1994-1995 i kitea ai te kaipuke moana Confederate "CSS Hunley" mai i Charleston, South Carolina.