The A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War History is presented each year by the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. The Award is given for outstanding original research on the Trans-Mississippi sector of the Civil War. To be considered a book must have been published in the last 24 months. A group of members of the Fort Worth CWRT are involved in the Selection Committee.
Winners of the Award receive $1,000 and are honored in a presentation in Fort Worth. All travel costs for the recipient are covered by the Fort Worth CWRT.
The Award is named in honor of the late A. M. Pate, Jr. - a Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist. "Aggie" Pate was involved in many history related activities including the founding of the Pate Museum of Transportation and the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. He had a strong interest in encouraging research and scholarship and supported a number of institutions of higher learning including Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan.
Past winners of the Pate Award include Donald S. Frazier for his book Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest, Gary D. Joiner for his book One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864, Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III for their book Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History and Steven Mayeux for his book Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of the Red River.
Entries for the 2008 Award should be received no later than September 30, 2008.
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A carefully researched, well written book on a little known part of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi.
The story in narrative and photographs of the Civil War in Texas on the border.
Nathaniel Banks is repulsed in his adventure up the Red River.
The story of the attempt by the Confederacy to expand westward.