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A Stillness at Appomattox {#3}

Record Added: 7/10/2013
Author Bruce Catton
Series The Army of the Potomac #3
Setting United States
Topic History: American Civil W
Publisher Doubleday Publishers
ISBN B0057Z1ZRU   Year 1953
Age Adult   Pages 438
Description White, printed dustjacket
 
This is the third and final volume in the trilogy, "The Army of the Potomac," written by historian Bruce Catton. This is the story of the last campaign of the Army of the Potomac, that Ill-fated army that had so often been humiliated by Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. This campaign was to be different however because there was a new man calling the shots and having a man like U. S. Grant at the helm made all of the difference in the world.

It took Grant a while though to convince this often badly led army that he was any different than his predecessors. Different he was however and once he locked horns with Lee he wasn't going to let up until one army or the other was destroyed. In other words Grant understood what had to be done and he was determined to do it.
Notes
This book won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize and U.S. National Book Award.
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