Previous Douglas Southall Freeman History Award Winners

2024 - Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution 1775-1777 by Major General Jason Q. Bohm, USMC, published by Savas Beatie Press.

2023 - The Atlanta Intelligencer Covers the Civil War, by Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick, published by the University of Tennessee Press

2022 - Sufferings in the Army of Tennessee by Christopher Thrasher

2021 - Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood by Stephen Davis

2020 - The Great Partnership by Christian B. Keller

2019 - The War Outside My Window - The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 by Janet Elizabeth Croon, Ashburn, VA.

2018 - Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River 1861-1865 by Thomas W. Cutrer

2017 - Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith

2016 - Fighting For General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and The North Carolina Cavalry Brigade by Sherridan Barringer

2015 - Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, by Timothy B. Smith, University of Kansas Press

2014 -The Petersburg Campaign, Vol. II, by Edwin Bearss, Savas Beatie LLC

2013- The Best Station of Them All - The Savannah Squadron 1861-1865 by Maurice Melton, University of Alabama Press

2012 - The Perfect Lion: The Life and Death Of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham by Ferry H. Maxwell, University of Alabama Press 2013

2011 - My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans - By Rusty Williams

2010 - Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State - By Mark K. Christ

2009 - Major General Robert E Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia - Darrell L. Collins, Savas Beatie LLC

2008 - Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War - Richard B. McCaslin, University of Arkansas Press

2007 - William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War by Eric H. Walther, University of North Carolina Press

2006 - Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Brian Cisco, Potomac Books, Inc.

2005 - Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson by Gregg S. Clemmer, Hearthside Publishing

2004 - Gentleman And Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of General Wade Hampton by Edward G Longacre, Rutledge Hill Press

2003 - Lee’s Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by Earl J. Hess, University of North Carolina Press

2002 – Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable, University of North Carolina Press

2001 - Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee & the Gettysburg Campaign by Scott Bowden & Bill Ward, Savas Publishing Co.

2000 - Taken At the Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy In The Maryland Campaign Of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh, Kent State University Press

1999 - Arkansas Confederates in The Western Theater by James Willis, Morningside Books

1998 - Richard S Ewell: A Soldier’s Life by Donald C. Pfanz, University of North Carolina Press

1997 - Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend by James I. Robertson, Jr., Macmillan Publishing Co.

1996 - Seasons Of War by Daniel E. Sutherland, Free Press

1995 - Andersonville: The Last Depot by William Marvel, University of North Carolina Press

1994 - Encyclopedia Of the Confederacy edited by Richard N. Current, Simon & Schuster, Publishers

1993 - The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon by Phillip T. Tucker, University of Alabama Press

1992 - In Deadly Earnest: The History of The First Missouri Brigade by Phil Gottschalk, Missouri River Press

1991 - Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain by Robert K, Krick, University of North Carolina Press

1990 - Fighting For the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander edited by Gary W. Gallagher, University of North Carolina Press

1989 - The Illustrated Confederate Reader by Rod Gragg, Harper & Row Publishers

1988 - Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to The Confederate Heartland by B. F. Cooling, University of Tennessee Press

1987 - The Man Who Tried to Burn New York by Nat Brandt, Syracuse University Press

1986 - Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan by James A Ramage, University Press of Kentucky

1985 - The Last Review by Virginias Dabney, Algonquin Books