Angela Riotto  Speaks at June Meeting

                   

Our June 2 speaker was Angela Riotto, historian at the  Young Research Institute, Defense Security Cooperation University.  Dr. Riotto's talk was entitled "Temporarily Yankeeized: Tales from Confederate Prisoners of War and What They Tell Us About Civil War Imprisonment."  This was great finish to our 2024-25 Campaign Year.  See you at the August barbecue!   

 

Election for 2025-26 Officers

At the June meeting the Round Table held the annual election of officers.  Tim Whalen was elected president for the campaign year beginning June 1.  David Vaughan will be First Vice President and Hal Simpson Second Vice President.  Bill Marks, Bruce Stewart, Dan Childs and Michelle Anderson will serve as at large members of the Executive Committee.  Dan Childs and Michelle Anderson will also serve as Secretary-Treasurer and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer.

 

Winner of 2025 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award Announced

 

                               

April 7, 2025

Daniel A. Masters to Receive Atlanta Round Table Award

The Atlanta Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that it has chosen Daniel A. Masters as the winner of its 2025 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award for his Hell by The Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863. The Round Table presents the Harwell Award annually for the best book on a Civil War subject published in the previous year. Named for the Atlanta Civil War Round Table’s founder and first president, a nationally recognized librarian, bibliographer, and historian, the award consists of a monetary prize and an engraved plaque and has been awarded each year since 1989. Mr. Masters will address the Round Table at its February 2026 meeting.

“This book is the biography of the battle through the eyes of the men who lived through it,” said Robert Fugate, chairman of the Round Table’s Harwell Award Committee. “The author’s extensive use of contemporaneous sources, mainly from the common soldiers’ viewpoint and many for the first time, brings a freshness and immediacy to the story that stays with the reader long after finishing the book.”

Masters is the author of numerous books and articles primarily focusing on the Western Theater of the Civil War from the perspective of the men in the ranks. The award-winning book was published by Savas Beatie.

The Round Table is now accepting nominations for the books published in the current year. See the website for submission guidelines: https://atlantacwrt.org/bookawards.htm

        

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