Dan Welch Speaks on Second Manassas

                  

 Our May 5 speaker was Dan Welch, Ranger at the Gettysburg National Military Park.  Welch's topic was “Boys, give them rocks," an excellent  examination of Stonewall  Jackson’s defensive stand at the 1862  battle. 

 Our June 2 speaker will be Angela Riotto,a historian at the  Young Research Institute, Defense Security Cooperation University.  Dr. Riotto's talk is entitled "Temporarily Yankeeized: Tales from Confederate Prisoners of War and What They Tell Us About Civil War Imprisonment."  This promises to be a great finish to our 2024-25 Campaign Year.  Don't miss it.  You can register via the pay button to the left or by sending a check to our secretary-treasurer. 

 

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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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Programs for Campaign Year

Please go HERE for a Power Point presentation with information on each speaker.