General Basil W. Duke Literary Award
Previous Winners

2024 - The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson in Easy Words for Children by M.L. Williamson with Frank B. Powell III (Editor), published by The Scuppernong Press, Wake Forest, NC.

2023 - Sketch of the Twelfth Alabama Infantry by Captain Robert Emory Park, republished by The Scuppernong Press, Wake Forest, NC, Frank B. Powell III, editor

2022 - No award

2021 - The Civil War Diaries of Cassie Fennell, Edited by Whitney Snow, University of Tennessee Press

2020 - Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay, Scuppernong Press, Wake Forest, N.C.

2019 - In Memory of Self and Comrades, Michael K. Shaffer, Kennesaw, GA., University of Tennessee Press.

2018 - A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65 by Captain S.A. Ashe. Reprinted by Scuppernong Press, Wake Forest, N.C.

2017 - No award

2016 - To Succeed or Perish: The Dairies of Sergeant Edmund Trent Egglestron, Co. G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery Regiment, edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Thomas E. Schott, and Marc Kunis, University of Tennessee Press.

2015 - The Diary of Nannie Hoskins Williams, edited by Minoa C. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Phyllis Smith & Eleanor Williams, University of Tennessee Press

2014 - Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War: Annotated Edition, Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, University of Kentucky Press

2013 - The Letters of Gen. Richard S. Ewell: Stonewall’s Successor, by Donald C. Pfanz, Univ. of Tennessee Press

2012 - Refugitta of Richmond: The Wartime recollections,--Grave & Gay, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and S. Kitrell Rushing, University of Tennessee Press

2011 - One of Morgan’s Men: Memoirs of Lt. John M. Porter of the 9th Kentucky, Univ. of Kentucky Press

2010 - Army Life from a Soldier’s Journal, University of Arkansas Press

2009 - Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary, University of Kentucky Press

2008 - Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph Bally, by T. Lindsay Baker, University of Arkansas Press

2007 - No award

2006 - Privations of a Private: Campaigning with the First Tennessee, CSA, and Life Thereafter, University of Alabama Press

2005 - Blockade Runners of the Confederacy, by Hamilton Cochran, University of Alabama Press

2004 - No Award

2003 - Acted from Principle: ‘The Civil War Diary of Dr. William McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi, The University of Arkansas Press

2002 - Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade, by John W. Green, University Press of Kentucky