A Stillness At Appomattox.

CATTON, Bruce.

Item Number: 136104

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To George Hanson with best wishes Bruce Catton.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Schwartz.

Recounting the final year of the Civil War, this classic volume by Bruce Catton won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in non-fiction. In this final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Catton, America's foremost Civil War historian, takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, 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.