A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) (original 1953; edition 1953)

by Bruce Catton

Series: The Army of the Potomac (3)

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Title:	A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3)
Authors:	Bruce Catton
Info:	Anchor (1953), Paperback, 448 pages
Collections:	US Civil War Collection, Your library
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A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1953)

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Final chapter of trilogy - covers Grant years. (

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stpnwlf | Jul 16, 2007 |

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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Mr. Lincoln's Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

The Civil War (6 Book Set) A Stillness at Appomattox, The Confederation and the Constitution, Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Who Fired the First Shot? by Bruce Catton

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The Healing Oath / A Stillness at Appomattox / The Bafut Beagles / The Dollmaker by Reader's Digest

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Series (with order)

The Army of the Potomac (3)

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Original publication date

1953

People/Characters

Ulysses S. Grant

Winfield Scott Hancock

Important places

Appomattox Court House

Important events

American Civil War

Overland Campaign

Battle of the Wilderness

Seige of Petersburg

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Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize (History, 1954)

National Book Award (Nonfiction, 1954)

New York Times bestseller (General, 1954)

Torchlight List (#25)

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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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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385044518, Paperback)

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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Undoubtedly Catton's most brilliant books, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Caton recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.… (more)

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