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Sources: National Park Service; Library of Congress; National Archives; Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, 1859-1865 (Library of America); The Civil War (trilogy), by Shelby Foote; Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson; Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald; Mr. Lincoln's Army, by Bruce Catton; Battlefields of the Civil War, by William C. Davis; Historical Atlas of the United States
...only caught up with Germany's 10-year lead but America was also outproducing all the Axis and the Allied powers combined, contributing nearly 300,000 planes, 100,000 tanks, 2 million trucks and 87,000 warships to the Allied cause. "The figures are all so astronomical," historian Bruce Catton marveled. "It was the equivalent of building two Panama Canals every month, with a fat surplus to boot...
DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that...
...same year that Michigan-born Catton won his Pulitzer Prize for A Stillness at Appomattox, Mississippi-born Novelist Shelby Foote began what was to have been a short, one-volume history of the war. Now, 20 years and 2,934 pages later, he has completed his history with this third volume. It is a pity that the Civil War fad seems to have abated; a historical narrative as rich in detail and purely exciting as Foote's deserves an audience of amateurs as well as professionals...
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things, Foote moves armies and great quantities of military information with a lively efficiency. This volume covers the final year of the war, from the campaigns in western Louisiana and Arkansas to the terrible endgame in the East, with Grant clamping down on Petersburg and Richmond and Sherman burning...