Word: catton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these anecdotes of men and leaders, as in his outlines of strategy and the headlong shock of battles. Catton writes with pace and purpose that more than make up for a certain purpleness in his prose...
...shouted: "Here, you damned son of a bitch, get out of here or you're a dead man." Someone fired a musket. Someone else jabbed a bayonet into Gilbert's horse and it galloped off into the darkness. The general's staff followed. Observes Author Bruce Catton dryly: "It took a certain knack to handle western volunteers, and not all regulars...
Revealing Vignettes. Such was the rambunctious, unpredictable human material that fought and won the bitterest conflict in U.S. history. Catton's book, "The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War," fills in the broad canvas of the four-year struggle on an area of a million square miles with revealing vignettes of the men who had to do the hard work and the hard dying. There is Sherman's army, on the eve of its march through Georgia, using up its issue of candles to create a festival of light, so that "for miles across...
...recouping some personal glory. And Long-street-why did he not attack as told, while opportunity still lay before him? "He wouldn't disobey commands," says a lesser general. "That's true, sir. But he might refuse requests," replies another. With the expert advice of Bruce Catton and Drama Critic Walter Kerr, Director Delbert (Marty) Mann and Author Sapinsley underscored the theme bluntly, as in peevish Longstreet's mockery: "Lee says: 'I'd be much obliged if you could see your way clear...
...give in to the Eastlands, nor to try to match them in rancor. It is to hasten the progress of Negroes outside the South, while pressing for all "deliberate speed" in the enforcement of the court's decision. In U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Historian Bruce Catton says that "the Civil War . . . infinitely broadened the category of American citizenship and the meaning of the American experiment ... It had committed the nation to a working belief in the brotherhood of man. This probably was a little too much to swallow at one gulp...