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The Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies

The NYMAS Civil War Book Award was instituted in 2002 and it became the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies in 2010 on the passing of Eugene Feit, NYMAS Executive Director from 2005-2010. It is awarded to authors who produced impactful and valuable written works on Civil War history

2018

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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The War for the Common Soldier: 

How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

by Peter S. Carmichael

Published by University of North Carolina Press, 2018, in Chapel Hill

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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Civil War Logistics:

A Study of Military Transportation

by Earl J. Hess

Published by LSU Press, 2017

2017
2016

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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City of Sedition:

The History of New York City during the Civil War

by John Strausbaugh

Published by Grand Central Publishing,  2016, in New York

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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For Brotherhood and Duty:

The Civil War History of the West Point Class of 1862

by Brian R. McEnany

Published by University Press of Kentucky, 2015, in Lexington

2015
2014

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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Appomattox:

Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War 

by Elizabeth Varon

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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Captives in Blue:

The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy 

by Roger Pickenpaugh

Published by University of Alabama Press; 2013.

2013
2011

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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The Union war

by Gary W. Gallagher

Published by Harvard University Press, 2011, in Cambridge, Mass. ISBN: 9780674045620 

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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The fiery trial:

Abraham Lincoln and

American slavery

by Eric Foner

Published by W. W. Norton & Co, in New York. Awarded to Eric for his lifetime contributions to the field of 19th Century American, Civil War and Global History

2010
2009

Eugene Feit Award Winner

West Pointers and the Civil War

West Pointers and the Civil War:

The Old Army in War and Peace

by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh

Published by University of North Carolina, 2009, in Chapel Hill

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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Lincoln and His Admirals

by Craig Symonds

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008, in New York

2008
2007

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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For his lifetime achievement's in civil war studies

James M. McPherson

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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The Civil War In Arizona:

The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-65

by Andrew E. Masich

Published by University of Oklahoma Press,

ISBN: 0806137479

2006
2005

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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While in the hands of the enemy:

Military Prisons of the Civil War 

by Charles W. Sanders, Jr.

Published by Louisiana State University Press in Baton Rouge. ISBN: 0807130613

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture

 edited by Alice Fahs & Joan Waugh

2004
2003

Eugene Feit Award Winner

For his lifetime achievement's in civil war studies

Archer Jones

Eugene Feit Award Winner

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For his lifetime achievement's in civil war studies

by Gary Gallagher

2002
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