There are more Civil War book awards than you can shake a stick at, but the
Pate Award, administered by the
Fort Worth Civil War Round Table, is the one I hold most dear. It is the only award that exclusively considers Trans-Mississippi theater scholarship (my own primary area of reading and research interest), but I also have a personal connection to it, serving in a non-voting advisory capacity to the committee head. The last is something that I am very happy to continue to do.
This year's winner, the award's 20th recipient, is William L. Shea for his 2023 biography
Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West (Potomac). The honor is without a doubt richly deserved. You can read my thoughts about the book
here in my 1/12/23 review. Congratulations, Bill!
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