Lot of 3 Bruce Catton Book: Never Call Retreat,Grant Takes Command, A Stillness
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Lot of 3 Bruce Catton Book: Never Call Retreat,Grant Takes Command, A Stillness. A Stillness at Appomattox. Grant Takes Command: Never Call Retreat: In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive. Although he was their most successful soldier, few men in Washington had even met him. Over the next several months his face, his morals, his total conduct would become commonly known and discussed by a nation tragically divided by the Civil War. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., was later to describe him as having "no gait, no manner, and no station" and as looking like "nobody at all." Yet as his close comrade-in-arms, General William T. Sherman, put it: "To me he is a mystery, and I believe he is a mystery to himself." The final volume of Bruce Catton's monumental Centennial History of the Civil War traces the war from Fredericksburg through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to a Courthouse at Appomattox and the death of Lincoln. A Stillness at Appomattox: In this, the final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Bruce Catton, America's foremost Civil War historian, recounts the final year of this heartbreaking, cruel, and bitter conflict. With unmatched brilliance, Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbor, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.
