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The Richard B. Harwell Book Award is given annually by the Civil War Round
Table of Atlanta “for the best book on a Civil War subject published in the
preceding year.” Consisting of $4,000 and an engraved plaque, the award honors
the late Richard B. Harwell, nationally recognized librarian, bibliographer and
historian, as well as the first President of the Civil War Round Table of
Atlanta. The winning author is invited to appear as a speaker before the CWRTA,
usually at the November meeting, during which time the award is presented.
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A list of previous winners follows:Recipients of the Harwell Book Award
1989
William D. Matter
If It Takes All Summer
1990
Christopher Lossen
Tennessee’s Forgotten Warrior
1991
Robert K. Krick
Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
1992
Gary Gallagher
Struggle for the Shenandoah
1993
Albert Castel
Decision in the West
1994
Richard Bumgartner & Larry Strayer
Echoes of Battle
1995
William R. Scaife
The Campaign for Atlanta
1996
Emory M. Thomas
Robert E. Lee
1997
William Marvel
Andersonville: The Last Depot
1998
James I. Robertson, Jr.
Stonewall Jackson
1999
J. Tracy Powers
Lee’s Miserables
2000
Thomas G. Dyer
Secret Yankees
2001
Ann Bailey
Chessboard of War
2002
William C. Davis
The Union That Shaped the Confederacy
2003
Gordon G. Rhea
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee
2004
Francis A. O’Reilly
The Fredericksburg Campaign
2005
Larry Daniels
Days of Glory: Army of the Cumberland
2006
Tom Carhart
Lost Triumph: Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why It
Failed
2007
Russell S. Bonds
Stealing the General
2008
Elizabeth Brown Pryor Reading the Man: A
Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
2009
James
M. McPherson
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as
Commander in Chief
2010
Earl J. Hess In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and
Confederate Defeat
2011
David A. Powell Failure in the Saddle: Nathan B. Forrest, Joe Wheeler and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign.
2012
Jeffery Wert A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph 1862-1863
2013
Dr. Brian Steel Wills Georgia Henry Thomas, As True As Steel
The members of the Richard Harwell Book Award Committee are Gary Barnes,
David Beale, Gene Hatfield, Terry Kingerey and Grant Moseley.
