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Franklin Library leather edition of Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomattox," Frontispiece by Fred Otnes, one of the PULITZER PRIZE CLASSICS series, published in 1983. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, hubbed spine, and gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for imperfection to gilt. Bruce Catton, who lived from 1899---1978, grew up in Michigan among Civil War veterans who enthralled him with stories of their adventures. Catton's extensive work describes the Battle of the Wilderness, the assault of the Mule Shoe at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House where General R.E. LEE surrenders his command; the Battle of Cold Harbor, the Battle of the Crater, and the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. Catton describes vividly the campaigns of ULYSSES S. GRANT in Virginia during 1864. Other Civil War generals he describes include GEORGE GORDON MEADE, PHILIP SHERIDAN, and ROBERT E. LEE. Catton used various collections of unpublished letters written by Federal soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families and official war records. There are even letters from Major General U.S. Grant III on recalled anecdotes and soldiers and ranking personnel about his famous grandfather, Ulysses S. Grant. In Chapter two, Catton writes: "Beside the roads the violets were in bloom and the bush honeysuckle was out, and the day and the year had a fragile light that the endless columns would soon trample to fragments. The last campaign had begun, and a staff officer sat on a bank overlooking the Rapidan and had a curious thought: how odd it would be if every man who was to die in the days just ahead had to wear a big bade today, so that a man watching by the river could identify all of those who were never coming back!" "Lee was on Grant's mind, too, that day. At noon Grant crossed the Rapidan and made temporary quarters in a deserted farmhouse overlooking the ford . . ." 438 pages, including a bibliography, Notes, and an Index. I offer Combined shipping.
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