Lee and Ulysses S. Grant was established almost immediately ... Lee, represent the epitome of the Lost Cause school, but even writers like Bruce Catton, who interpreted the war primarily from ...

Lee treated Grant with similar disdain ... in Grant’s favor—as well as narratives and campaign studies, from Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic “A Stillness at Appomattox ...

A century and a half ago, a brief encounter between two men, a Northerner and Southerner, altered the course of American history. I don’t mean what you probably have in mind; the Lincoln ...

GRANT TAKES COMMAND, by Bruce Catton. 556 pages ... considered necessary to take the offense against Robert E. Lee’s entrenched defenders. His latest book will be Catton’s last about Grant.

Bruce Catton, born in Petoskey ... They were his connection to the great men he had written about so well: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Custer. As the years rolled on, the men in blue had quietly ...

Civil War author and historian David Blight talks about the career and influence of one of his predecessors in the field, Bruce Catton ... about General Ulysses S. Grant’s career after the ...