Stephen Davis Wins Awards
Originally published September 2022 · pp. 11
their 70th Season— Stephen Davis Wins Awards Celebrating Civil War Round Table of New York
Our “Critic’s Corner” columnist has won more awards for his recent books on General Hood. The latest is the Fletcher Pratt Award given by the Civil War Round Table of New York. Steve is author of Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (2019) and Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (2020). Both are published by Mercer University Press, https://www.mupress.org.
The Round Table award was created in 1956 shortly after the death of Fletcher Pratt, distinguished Civil War historian and former president of the CWRTNY. Previous winners include James M. McPherson and Edwin C. Bearss. “I’m thrilled to stand amidst such tall cotton,” Steve remarked. His two Hood books have also received the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award of the Atlanta Civil War Round Table, as well as the Douglas Southall Freeman Award of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.
The Civil War Round Table of New York celebrated its 70th season with a program on John Bell Hood by Fletcher Pratt Award winner Stephen Davis, and Civil War period music by John Gregor of the Sons of Union Veterans and his vintage banjo. Present were six past and present RT Presidents. Although, like most other Round Tables, they had been forced to do a combination of Zoom and live meetings the past couple of years, they were able to add to the celebration with a tour the following Sunday to Grant’s Tomb, where the park ranger gave an enlightening history of the memorial’s origins and choice of location and style.
Civil War Round Table of New York presents the 20202021 Fletcher Pratt Award to Stephen Davis for The Generalship of John Bell Hood.
Author Stephen Davis proudly holds his Fletcher Pratt Award and his latest book, Into Tennessee & Failure John Bell Hood. (Photograph by Hunter Hawk)
New York Round Table members gather at Grant’s Tomb. Second from right is Patrick Falci, Chair of the Round Table’s Book Award Committee. Note his red shirt: Pat played General Hill in Turner’s Gettysburg.