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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

With The Gunners, August 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 5
The Technician, August 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 5
What Is Sea Power?, June 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 4
In modern war, the true exercise of maritime power depends nearly as much upon the exertions of land and air forces as it does upon naval.” But it is still sea power.
Reconstruction, June 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 4
Morning Star, February 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 2
Go It Alone, February 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 2
Old- Time Army, December 1958 | Vol. 10, No. 1
Sea Raider, October 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 6
Realist’s War, October 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 6
Young Innocents, October 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 6
A Mild Murderer, August 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 5
The Civil War soldier marched to his own individualist cadence, but he was much like today’s G. I.