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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1953

Originally published
  
1953

Page count
  
438

Genres
  
History, Non-fiction

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Country
  
United States

Subject
  
American Civil War

Pages
  
438

Author
  
Bruce Catton

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Series
  
Army of the Potomac trilogy

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award for Nonfiction

Similar
  
Bruce Catton books, Pulitzer Prize for History winners, History books

A stillness at appomattox


A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is an award-winning, non-fiction book written by Bruce Catton. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It is the final volume of the Army of the Potomac trilogy that includes Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951) and Glory Road (1952).

Contents

Content

A Stillness at Appomattox is a history on the American Civil War that recounts the final year. Some of Catton's extensive work describes the Battle of the Wilderness, the assault of the Mule Shoe at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, the Battle of Cold Harbor, the Battle of the Crater and the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse.

Catton's work describes the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864. The lengthy work follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war. Other American Civil War generals he describes include George Gordon Meade, Philip Sheridan, and Robert E. Lee.

It is the third volume of the Army of the Potomac trilogy that includes Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951) and Glory Road (1952).

Awards

  • A Stillness at Appomattox won the 1954 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
  • The citation of the award reads:

  • A Stillness at Appomattox won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for History.
  • Bruce Catton

    Bruce Catton (1899 — 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. Catton was known as a narrative historian who specialized in popular histories that emphasized the colorful characters and vignettes of history, in addition to the simple dates, facts, and analyses. His works, although well-researched, were generally not presented in a rigorous academic style, supported by footnotes. In the long line of Civil War historians, Catton is arguably the most prolific and popular of all, with Shelby Foote his only conceivable rival. Oliver Jensen, who succeeded him as editor of American Heritage magazine, wrote: "There is a near-magic power of imagination in Catton's work that seemed to project him physically into the battlefields, along the dusty roads and to the campfires of another age."

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