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. N.B. - Year dates are the year of publication.

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. Mye (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