Bruce Catton

"This is the story of the last desperate, heartbreaking, cruel year of the Civil War. In the winter of 1864, the Army of the Potomac stood at the crossroads. The old army, fired with the spirit of men who had joined out of love of country and who had long since become disillusioned, was gone. The new army, made up of mercenaries, bounty-jumpers, and a hard core of seasoned and embittered veterans, had lost sight of its original goal of radiant victory...

From the perspective of one hundred years' distance in time, the story of America's most violent internal disorder emerges, illuminating the participants and the events in strong light.

The chronicle of the war from the Battle of Fredericksburg through the assassination of President Lincoln and the tenuous beginnings of Reconstrucion.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial. Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals -...

The author follows General Ulysses S. Grant as he undertakes his first Civil War command, and follows him as he leads his troops through a series of battles - Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw, Bayou, Edwards Station, and finally Vicksburg - that bring control of the the Mississippi River, the lifeline of the South, to the Union.

Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.