A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

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A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3)

by Bruce Catton

Series: The Army of the Potomac (Vol. 3)

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Info:	Anchor (1953), Paperback, 448 pages
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Final chapter of trilogy - covers Grant years. (

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stpnwlf | Jul 16, 2007 |

Another of Catton's gripping narratives. This book chronicles Grant's march from the Wilderness to the final surrender at Appomattox. Includes quite a bit of detail on the Battle of the Crater. (

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MrKris | Nov 19, 2006 |

It is not often that histories can keep one up at night. This whole trilogy could be the best books I've ever read on the Civil War. If you read this series in corelation with Shelby Foote's trilogy, you've got the whole picture. (

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Series (with order)

The Army of the Potomac (Vol. 3)

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1953

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American Civil War

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Pulitzer Prize (History, 1954)

National Book Award (Nonfiction, 1954)

New York Times bestseller (General, 1954)

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To mys sister Barbara

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Everybody agreed that the Washington's Birthday ball was the most brilliant event of the winter.

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A Stillness at Appomattox is the third volume of Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy. This volume covers Grant's campaigns in Virginia from 1864 to the end of the war in 1865.

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If every historian wrote like Bruce Catton, no one would read fiction. This marvelously well-told account of the final year of the Civil War marches readers from Wilderness, through Petersburg, and finally to the climax at Appomattox. The surrender scene, when Grant and Lee meet at last, is spine tingling. This is the third book of Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy. It's also the best of the bunch, even though the first two, Mr. Lincoln's Army and Glory Road, are both exceptional. Not to be missed. --John Miller

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