Laney Book Prize

The Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize is awarded by the Austin Civil War Round Table for distinguished scholarship and writing on the military or political history of the Civil War. 

The Laney for 2024 went to George Rable for his book "Conflicts of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War." 

Past Winners 

Year

2023 - The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert

2022 - Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder

2021 - The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freeom by H.W. Brands

2020 - Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L Miller

2019 - A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1, From the Crossing of the James to the Crater by A. Wilson Greene

2018 - On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea Esq.

2017 - The Chickamauga Campaign_Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863 by David A. Powell

2016 - Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg,Port Hudson,and the Trans-Mississippi by Donald S. Frazier

2015 - Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne

2014 - Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon

2013 - September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril by Dennis E. Frye

2012 - The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher

2011 - Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss

2010 - Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 by Dr. Donald S. Frazier

2009 - Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds

2008 - Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford

2007 - Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War by A. Wilson Greene

2006 - The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac by Jeffry D. Wert

2005 - Sabine Pass; the Confederacy's Thermopylae by Edward T. Cotham

2004 - The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock by Francis Augustin O'Reilly

2003 - Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea

2002 - Lee in the Shadow of Washington by Richard B. McCaslin

2001 - Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry

2000 - Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh

1999 - A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A. by Jeffry D. Wert

1998 - The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher

1997 - The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy by William C. Davis

1996 - Seasons of War: The Ordeal of the Confederate Community, 1861-1865 by Daniel E. Sutherland