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Robert J. Wynstra Wins the Gettysburg Round
Table Award for
The Rashness of That Hour
The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the
Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General
Alfred Iverson
By Robert J. Wynstra (Savas Beatie, 2010)
The Rashness of That Hour by author Robert J. Wynstra was
selected as the winner of the Gettysburg Round Table Award
for the most noteworthy information on the Gettysburg
Campaign.
The Gettysburg Round Table Award is presented annually by the Civil War Round Table
of Gettysburg to the most original outstanding work on the Gettysburg Campaign.
"We have three criteria for a presentation,” says Civil War Round Table president David
Collins. “The book has to be about the Gettysburg campaign, the Retreat, or the
memorialization of the battlefield. It has to be published in the preceding year, and it has
to contribute significantly to the existing amount of knowledge we know about
Gettysburg. The book committee thought that this book was the most significant addition
last year to our knowledge about the battle. "
The Rashness of That Hour is a deeply-researched brigade and battle history about the
defeat of Iverson's brigade at Gettysburg on Day 1, one of the most popular topics
Gettysburg students and readers discuss.
"I am pleased and gratified to receive such a prestigious award. I would like to thank
the award committee and the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table for selecting my book.
Best of all is the confirmation that others find the story behind the demise of Alfred
Iverson just as fascinating and informative as I do,” said Robert J. Wynstra.
Drawing on a wealth of newly discovered and previously unpublished sources, the book
explores the story behind one of the Civil War’s most notorious blunders. An in-depth
analysis of the events at Gettysburg is balanced with an insider’s examination of a
brigade that was in turmoil long before its final rendezvous with its July 1, 1863 destiny.
The Rashness of That Hour also recently won the 2010 Dr. James I. Robertson Literary
Prize for Confederate History as well as the Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award for
the most original outstanding work on the Gettysburg Campaign.
About Author Robert J. Wynstra
Robert J. Wynstra recently retired as a senior writer for
the News and Public Affairs Office in the College of
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at
the University of Illinois. He holds bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in history and a master’s degree in
journalism, all from the University of Illinois.
Rob has been researching Alfred Iverson’s role in the
Civil War for more than ten years. He is finishing work
on a study of Robert Rodes’ Division in the Gettysburg
Campaign.
The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate
Brigadier General Alfred Iverson
By Robert J. Wynstra
List $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-932714-88-3
Published September 2010 by Savas Beatie LLC
Available at bookstores nationwide and online.
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