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Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton (1899 – 1978) was the Founding Editor of American Heritage and arguably the most prolific and popular of all Civil War historians. He wrote an astonishing 167 articles for American Heritage, and won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.

Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald Ford, in 1977, the year before his death.

Articles by this Author

The repulse of Pickett’s charge, described in a little-known account written shortly after the battle by a Union officer
AN EXCERPT FROM A NEW BOOK WHICH TELLS HOW THE CIVIL WAR CAME TO ITS TERRIBLE, HAUNTING CONCLUSION
Few memoirs in recent years have drawn more attention, or stirred up more of a controversy, than the book Three Years with Grant , written by Civil War newsman Sylvanus Cadwallader and edited by Benjamin P. Thomas.
Think Again, June 1956 | Vol. 7, No. 4
The Other Extreme, June 1956 | Vol. 7, No. 4
Desolate South, June 1956 | Vol. 7, No. 4
The Town Hall, June 1956 | Vol. 7, No. 4
There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South
Floating Palaces, August 1955 | Vol. 6, No. 5