Bruce Catton, born in Petoskey, 1899 – 1978 The Civil War is the greatest single event of American history and as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg July 1-4 ...

Civil War author and historian David Blight talks about the career and influence of one of his predecessors in the field, Bruce Catton. From… read more Civil War author and historian David ...

historian Bruce Catton passed his boyhood in a small Midwestern town, where he was entranced by the hypnotic yarns spun by elderly veterans of the Civil War. These men transfixed Catton ...

Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 — August 28, 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox ...

including scores of photographs by Mathew Brady and other masterful war photographers, and a lively narrative by Bruce Catton, who was widely considered at the time to be the dean of Civil War ...

Surviving Two. These are a few who people the pages of Journalist-Historian Bruce Catton’s The Coming Fury, first of a three-volume “Centennial History of the Civil War” commissioned six ...

trace their ancestry to someone who experienced the Civil War. The great narrative historian of the 1950s and 1960s, Bruce Catton, the writer who with his matchless prose as well as superb ...

Historians like to say the Civil War was won in the West ... The great iconographers of the war — Douglas Southall Freeman, Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote (even, most recently, Ken Burns ...

Lee, critically reviewed by Bruce Catton, this is what one eminent historian ... Catton is a foremost historian and author of Civil War books. For my money I will go with his opinion of Lee ...

The celebrated Civil War historian Bruce Catton best sums up this sense when he refers to the war as "a consuming tragedy so costly that generations would pass before people could begin to say ...