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ABA ABBY Winner

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi (1988)
• Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman (1988)
• The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy (1992)
• Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Vo by Gary Paulsen (1999)
• Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson (2003)
• Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen by James I. Robertson Jr. (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble C: An American Slave (Barnes & Noble by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
• Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson (Biography, 1999)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Vo by Gary Paulsen (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Vo by Gary Paulsen (1999)

Ambassador Book Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (American Studies, 1993)

American Book Award

• Paradise Alley (P.S.) by Kevin Baker (2003)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong (2006)
• Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries Of The H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (2006)

Bancroft Prize

• The Destructive War: William Tecumseh, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster (1992)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2009)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries Of The H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (2005)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1978)
• The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely (1992)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1993)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)
• LINCOLN'S MEN: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis (2000)
• Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Harold Holzer (2005)
• Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)
• Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds (2009)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize

• The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock by Francis Augustin O'Reilly (2004)
• Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (Nation Divided) by A. Wilson Greene (2007)
• Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson Lankford (2008)

Edgar Award

• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson (Fact Crime, 2007)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1998)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• The Civil War: A History by Harry Hansen (1962)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote (1963)
• The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign by James V. Murfin (1965)
• The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington (1968)
• Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly (1971)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote (1974)
• Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard by Alfred Bellard (1975)
• The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861-1863 (Jules and Frances Landry Award) by Stephen Z. Starr (1979)
• Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely (1981)
• John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence by Richard M. McMurry (1982)
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears (1983)
• Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865 by Larry J. Daniel (1984)
• The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (1985)
• The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 Jul by Edward G. Longacre (1986)
• General A.P. Hill by James I. Jr Robertson (1987)
• Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland by Benjamin Franklin Cooling (1988)
• Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864 (Bloody Roads South) by Noah Andre Trudeau (1989)
• Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg (1991)
• The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (Modern War Studies) by Wiley Sword (1992)
• The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others by John Waugh (1994)
• Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears (1996)
• Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson (1997)
• Lee and His Generals in War and Memory by Gary W. Gallagher (1998)
• To the North Anna River: Grant And Lee, May 13-25, 1864 (Jules and Frances Landry Award Series) by Gordon C. Rhea (2000)
• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Nation Divided: New Studies in C by Charles B. Dew (2001)
• Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears (2003)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Decision-Making)

Founder's Award

• Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day by William A. Frassanito (1978)
• Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander by Edward Porter Alexander (1989/90)
• Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Robert Gould Shaw (1991/2)
• Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey by Robert Sneden (1999/2000)
• A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond by Priscilla Bond (2005/6)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely (1982)
• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern by Drew Gilpin Faust (1997)

Golden Kite Award

• The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy (Nonfiction, 1990)

Golden Kite Honor

• Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction, 1987)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus M. Bordewich (General Nonfiction, 2005)

Guardian 1000

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (War and travel)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (War and travel)

Heartland Prize

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1965)
• Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman (1988)
• The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy (1991)

IPPY Finalist

• Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry by Richard Miller (U.S. North-East, 2006)

James Fenimore Cooper Prize

• Paradise Alley (P.S.) by Kevin Baker (2003)

Jefferson Cup

• Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman (1988)
• Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Vo by Gary Paulsen (1999)

Jefferson Davis Award

• The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (1985)
• Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer (1986)
• Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour by William C. Davis (1991)
• A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy by William C. Davis (1994)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern by Drew Gilpin Faust (1996)
• Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson (1997)
• Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Civil War America) by J. Tracy Power (1998)
• Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper (2000)
• The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling (2001)
• Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable (2002)
• Walker's Texas Division, C.s.a: Greyhounds of the Trans-mississippi (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American by Richard G. Lowe (2004)
• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2007)

Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Award, Grady McWhiney Research Foundation

• Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Civil War America) by J. Tracy Power (1999)

Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History

• Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia (Civil War (Louisana State University Press)) by Terry L. Jones (1987)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1964)
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1965)

Lillian Smith Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
• Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon (2004)

Lincoln Prize

• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (1991)
• The Destructive War: William Tecumseh, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster (1992)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)
• For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson (1998)
• Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable (2003)
• Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine (2004)
• Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)
• Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage) by Douglas L. Wilson (2007)
• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2008)
• The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes (2008)
• Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds (2009)
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (2009)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper (Biography, 2000)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (History, 2008)

Maine Literary Award

• Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan (2009, winner)

Michigan Notable Books

• A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War by Richard Bak (2005)
• My Brave Mechanics: The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War (Great Lake Books) (Great Lake Books) by Mark Hoffman (2008)

Minnesota Book Awards

• Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Vo by Gary Paulsen (Young People's Fiction Winner, 1999)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) by Shelby Foote (15)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (77)

National Book Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)
• A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) by Bruce Catton (Nonfiction, 1954)

National Book Award finalist

• Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely (Autobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1983)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)
• Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut (History (Hardcover), 1982)
• Abraham Lincoln, The Illustrated Edition: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg (Nonfiction, 1955)
• The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. I) by Shelby Foote (Nonfiction, 1959)
• Pickett's Charge by George Stewart (Nonfiction, 1960)
• Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Nonfiction, 1961)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Criticism, 1992)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography, 2005)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (General Nonfiction, 2008)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• Eyewitness: Civil War by John Stanchack (2001)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1988)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1992)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

New York Times bestseller

• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara (Fiction, 1996)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)
• The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara (Fiction, 1998)
• The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Fiction, 2005)
• Yankee From Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen (General, 1944)
• A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) by Bruce Catton (General, 1954)
• Abraham Lincoln, The Illustrated Edition: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg (General, 1954)
• Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop (General, 1955)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 1988)
• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (Nonfiction, 1995)
• April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) by Jay Winik (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History) by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newbery Honor

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1965)

Newbery Medal

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1958)
• Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman (1988)

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