Word: catton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulging volumes, which brought to a close a 29-year job of loving scholarship by the Abraham Lincoln Association. The other was A Stillness at Appomattox, the last of three lively volumes detailing the history of the Army of the Potomac. It was the job of a journalist, Bruce Catton, but no scholar had done it nearly so well...
...Bruce Catton is a journalist (the Nation) who has spent three years making the Civil War sound as fresh and exciting as if it had been fought yesterday. In A Stillness at Appomattox, he ends the story of the Army of the Potomac that he began with Mr. Lincoln's Army and continued with Glory Road. Once again, without stinting the strategies of the generals, he digs into regimental histories and private diaries to create a lively sense of the common soldier performing his uncommon chore of fighting and dying...