• General Basil W. Duke Literary Award:
Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Thomas Schott, & Marc Kunis, editors of To Succeed or Perish: The Diaries of Sergeant Edmund Trent Eggleston, Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery Regiment
(UT Press).• Albert Castel Book Award:
Edward B. McCaul for To Retain Command of the Mississippi: The Civil War Naval Campaign for Memphis (UT Press).
• Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize:
Donald S. Frazier for Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson and the Trans-Mississippi (State House Pr).
• Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award:
David A. Powell for The Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863
(Savas Beatie).• Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History:
J. Matthew Gallman for Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front
(UNC Pr). • Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award:
Thomas J. Ryan for Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee's Invasion of the North, June-July 1863
(Savas Beatie).• 2016 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize :
Martha Hodes for Mourning Lincoln
(Yale UP). • Douglas Southall Freeman History Award:
Sheridan R. Barringer for Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
(Savas Beatie).• Lt. Gen. Richard G. Trefry Award:
The Emerging Civil War Series (Savas Beatie), Chris Mackowski (series editor) and Kris White (series historian).
• The North Jersey Civil War Round Table 2016 Book Award:
Louis P. Masur for Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
(Oxford UP).Congratulations to all the current and soon-to-be winners.
Thanks for posting these, Drew. All these authors deserve tremendous praise and thanks for their work.
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