Milliken’s Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory by Linda Barnickel, and published by LSU Press, is the recipient of the 2013 A.M. Pate Jr. Award in Civil War History, given by the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table for best new book containing “outstanding original research” on the Trans-Mississippi theater of the war.

Barnickel will be speaking at the January 14, 2014 meeting of the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table where she will be presented the award.