The Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award is given annually by the Atlanta
Civil War Round Table for the best book on a Civil War subject published in the
preceding year. Consisting of a monetary prize and an engraved plaque, the award honors
the late Richard Barksdale Harwell, nationally recognized librarian, bibliographer and
historian, as well as the first President of the Atlanta Civil War Round Table. The winning author is invited to appear as a speaker before the
Round Table,
usually at the November meeting, during which time the award is presented.
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1989 |
William D. Matter |
If It Takes All Summer |
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1990 |
Christopher Losson |
Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors |
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1991 |
Robert K. Krick |
Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain |
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1992 |
Gary Gallagher |
Struggle for the Shenandoah |
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1993 |
Albert Castel |
Decision in the West |
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1994 |
Richard Baumgartner & Larry Strayer |
Echoes of Battle |
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1995 |
William R. Scaife |
The Campaign for Atlanta |
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1996 |
Emory M. Thomas |
Robert E. Lee |
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1997 |
William Marvel |
Andersonville: The Last Depot |
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1998 |
James I. Robertson, Jr. |
Stonewall Jackson |
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1999 |
J. Tracy Power |
Lee's Miserables |
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2000 |
Thomas G. Dyer |
Secret Yankees |
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2001 |
Anne Bailey |
Chessboard of War |
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2002 |
William C. Davis |
The Union That Shaped the Confederacy |
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2003 |
Gordon G. Rhea |
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee |
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2004 |
Francis A. O'Reilly |
The Fredericksburg Campaign |
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2005 |
Larry Daniels |
Days of Glory: Army of the Cumberland |
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2006 |
Tom Carhart |
Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why It
Failed |
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2007 |
Russell S. Bonds |
Stealing the General |
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2008 |
Elizabeth Brown Pryor |
Reading the Man: A
Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters |
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2009 |
James
M. McPherson |
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as
Commander in Chief |
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2010 |
Earl J. Hess |
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and
Confederate Defeat |
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2011 |
David A. Powell |
Failure in the Saddle: Nathan B. Forrest, Joe Wheeler and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign. |
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2012 |
Jeffry Wert |
A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph 1862-1863 |
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2013 |
Brian Steel Wills |
George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel |
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2014 |
Allen C. Guelzo |
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion |
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2015 |
Timothy B. Smith |
Shiloh: Conquer or Perish |
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2016 |
David A. Powell |
The Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the
Grave |
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2017 |
Earl
Hess |
Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man in the
Confederacy |
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2018 |
Brian Steel Wills |
Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in
the American Civil War |
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2019 |
A. Wilson Greene |
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for
Petersburg - Volume One |
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2020 |
Hampton
Newsome |
The Fight for the Old North State: The
Civil War in North Carolina, January- May 1864 |
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2021 |
Stephen
Davis |
Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell
Hood |
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2022 |
Caroline Janney |
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of
Lee's Army after Appomattox |
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2022 |
Charles Knight |
From Arlington to Appomattox, Robert E
Lee's Civil War
Day by Day: 1861-1865 |
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In 2022 the Round Table for the first time made
two presentations of the Harwell Award |
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2023
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Jeffry Wert |
The Heart of Hell : The
Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvanias'
Bloody Angle |
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2024 |
Scott Hartwig |
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The
Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign |
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