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May 23, 2007
Author, and Pamplin Park President, wins award for Civil War book
Pamplin Park’s A. Wilson Greene wins an award for a book on life in Petersburg, Virginia†during the Civil War.
From Fredericksburg.com:
A book written by a former Fredericksburg historian, A. Wilson Greene, featured in a recent column, has picked up a prize.
The Austin Civil War Round Table of Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Laney Prize to Greene for “Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War.”
The Laney Prize is given for “distinguished scholarship and writing on the military or political history of the American Civil War,” according to the group.
Greene, president of Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Dinwiddie County, spent years researching the book to detail what life was like for Petersburg residents and Confederates defending the city during and immediately after the war.
[...] Award-winning author and President and CEO at Pamplin Historical Park, A.Wilson Greene, will speak to visitors on Saturday, June 23, about his recent release, “Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War.” His book tells the story of the Confederacyís seventh largest city from the eve of the Civil War through the first four months of Reconstruction. [...]