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A stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton

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A stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton

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eng

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A stillness at Appomattox

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890211089

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Bruce Catton

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Army of the Potomac trilogy

Summary

Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy. Utilizing various collections of unpublished letters written by soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families, and official war records, Catton follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war, detailing many crucial battles along the way

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adult

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