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The
Fletcher Pratt Award
At a meeting of the Board of the
Directors held on June 19, 1956, James D. Horan proposed
that a “Fletcher Pratt Award” be established as a
memorial to a distinguished charter member and former
president (1953-54), who had passed away nine days
earlier. Unanimously approved as proposed, the award, in
the form of an appropriate plaque, is presented to the
author or editor of the best non-fiction book on the
Civil War published during the course of the calendar
year. The Fletcher Pratt Award is presented annually at
the May meeting.
One of the founding members and the second
president of the Civil War Round Table of New York, Fletcher Pratt was
a prolific writer. Pratt authored 16 books, including six on the
American Civil War.
Previous winners of this prestigious award have
included such Civil War luminaries as Bruce Catton, Burke Davis, Allan
Nevins, Harry Hansen, Shelby Foote, Clifford Dowdey, Edwin Coddington,
John Y. Simon, David Donald, William C. Davis, William McFeely,
Stephen Sears, Richard McMurray, Edward Longacre, James M. McPherson,
James I. Robertson, Noah Trudeau, Steven Woodworth, Wiley Sword, Gary
Gallagher, Gordon Rhea, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Amanda Foreman, Allen
Guelzo, and Ed Bearss, just to name a few.
For more information
on the Civil War Round Table of New York, please contact The Civil War
Round Table of New York at our mailing address: 139-33 250th
Street, Rosedale, New York 11422. Or, if you prefer, call
718-341-9811, or email us at
cwrtnyc1@gmail.com.
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(From Left to Right: Award Committee Member, Charles Mander;
Fletcher Pratt Award Winner, Dr. James M. McPherson; Award
Chairperson, Patrick Falci; Award Committee Member, William
Finlayson)
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PAST WINNERS
1956 Bruce
Catton - This Hallowed Ground
1957 Burke Davis -
J.E.B. Stuart: The Last Cavalier
1958 Philip Van Doren Stern -
An End to Valor
1959 Allan Nevins -
The Improvised War: 1861-1862
1960 Ernest & Trevor Dupuy -
The Compact History of
the Civil War
1961 Glenn Tucker -
Chickamauga
1962 Harry Hansen -
The Civil War
1963 Shelby Foote -
The Civil War: A Narrative
(Volume 2)
1964 Clifford Dowdey -
The Seven Days: The Emergence
of Lee
1965 James V. Murfin -
The Gleam of Bayonets
1966 Charles B. Dew -
Ironmaker of the Confederacy:
Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works
1967 Glydon G. Van Deusen -
William Henry Seward
1968 Edwin B. Coddington -
The Gettysburg Campaign: A
Study In Command
1969 Bruce Catton -
Grant Takes Command
1970 Frank Vandiver -
Their Tattered Flags
1971 Thomas Connelly -
Army of the Heartland
1972 Robert M. Myers (editor) -
Children of Pride
1973 John Y. Simon -
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
(Volume 5)
1974 Shelby Foote. The Civil War: A Narrative (Volume 3)
1975 David H. Donald (editor). Gone For a Soldier: The
Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard
1976 Richard Wheeler. Voices of the Civil War
1977 William C. Davis - for continuing contributions to
Civil War history
1978 Rowena Anita Reed -
Combined Operations in the
Civil War
1979 Stephen Z. Starr -
The Union Cavalry in the
Civil War (Volume 1)
1980 Samuel Carter III -
The Final Fortress
1981 William McFeeley - Grant: A Biography
1982 Richard McMurray -
John Bell Hood and the War
for Southern Independence
1983 Stephen W. Sears -
Landscape Turned Red
1984 Larry J. Daniel -
Cannoneers in Grey
1985 Joseph T. Glatthaar -
Sherman's March To the Sea
and Beyond
1986 Edward G. Longacre -
The Cavalry at Gettysburg
1987 James I. Robertson, Jr. -
General A.P. Hill: The
Story of a Confederate Warrior
1988 Benjamin F. Cooling, Jr. -
Forts Henry &
Donelson
1989 Noah Andre Trudeau -
Bloody Roads South: The
Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May - June 1864
1990 Steven E. Woodworth -
Jefferson Davis and His
Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
1991 Rod Gragg -
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of
Fort Fisher
1992 Wiley Sword -
Embrace an Angry Wind
1993 William J. Miller -
Mapping For Stonewall
1994 John C. Waugh -
The Class of 1846
1995 Steven E. Woodworth -
Davis and Lee at War
1996 Stephen W. Sears -
Chancellorsville
1997 James I. Robertson, Jr. -
Stonewall Jackson, the
Man, the Soldier, the Legend
1998 Gary W. Gallagher -
Lee and His Generals in War
and Memory
1999 Richard L. Kiper -
Major General John Alexander
McClernand: Politician in Uniform
2000 Gordon C. Rhea -
To the North Anna River
2001 Charles B. Dew -
Apostles of Disunion
2002 Grady McWhiney-
Confederate Crackers and
Cavaliers
2003 Stephen W. Sears - Gettysburg
2004 Michael J. Bennett -
Union Jacks
2005 Ira M. Rutkow -
Bleeding Blue and Gray
2006
Robert Tracy McKenzie
- Lincolnites and
Rebels
2007 Joan Cashin -
First Lady of the Confederacy
2008 Joseph T. Glatthaar -
General Lee's Army
2009 William L. Shea for
Fields of Blood
2010 Donald Stoker for
The Grand Design: Strategy
and the U.S. Civil War
2011 Amanda Foreman for
A World of Fire
2012 Timothy B. Smith for
Corinth 1862 - Siege,
Battle, Occupation
2013 Allen C. Guelzo for
Gettysburg: The Last
Invasion
2014 Ed Bearss for
The Petersburg Campaign -
Volumes 1 & 2
2015
Dr. James M. McPherson for
"Embattled Rebel:
Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief"
2016 John Strausbaugh -
City of Sedition
2017 Ron Chernow -
Grant
2018 Timothy B. Smith - The Real Horse
Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid
Through Mississippi
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