Glory Road: The Bloody Route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg.

CATTON, Bruce.

Item Number: 87451

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952.

First edition of Catton’s second volume of his acclaimed Army of the Potomac trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Bruce Catton on the title page. Name to the half-title page, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1863 is the focus of Glory Road. During this time the outcome of the Civil War is determined, as the battles at Fredericksburg, Rappahannock and Chancellorsville set the state for Union victory as Gettysburg.