Bruce Catton

A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...

Recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War.

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

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 First volume of the centennial history opens with the democratic convention in April 1860 at Charleston and closes with the Battle of Bull Run.

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