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    Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil...
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    Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch...
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  • Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is a non-fiction history book written by Bruce Catton. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the campaigns...
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  • The Blue and the Gray (miniseries) (category Films scored by Bruce Broughton)
    companion to the series in 1982, based on a story by John Leekley and Bruce Catton and the teleplay by Ian McLellan Hunter. The title refers to the colors...
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  • Catton may refer to: Catton, Derbyshire Catton, East Riding of Yorkshire Catton Grove Chalk Pit, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Norfolk...
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  • James Parton, Oliver Jensen, Joseph J. Thorndike and founding editor Bruce Catton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War. They formed the...
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    Confederate forces during the three-day battle, according to Busey and Martin. Bruce Catton wrote, "The town of Gettysburg looked as if some universal moving day...
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    abduction, and were quite possibly inspired by it. Two such projects, by Bruce Catton of the Newspaper Enterprise Association and Fred Pasley of the Daily...
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  • standard biographies, campaign studies, and recent books by Hudson Strode, Bruce Catton, James G. Randall, Clifford Dowdey, T. Harry Williams, Kenneth M. Stampp...
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    impetuosity led to high losses among his troops as he moved up in rank. Bruce Catton wrote that "the decision to replace Johnston with Hood was probably the...
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    aspirations are there, our desires for humanity." American historian Bruce Catton noted the prophets, whose "religion was an affair of the workaday world...
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    lines, as he wheeled around his opponent's flank. The Civil War scholar Bruce Catton writes: Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized...
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    Heights stands as his legacy. — Jeffry D. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln Bruce Catton summarized Burnside: ... Burnside had repeatedly demonstrated that it...
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    onward; thus, a rebellion had been initiated by individuals. Historian Bruce Catton described President Abraham Lincoln's April 15, 1861 proclamation, three...
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    militarily exiled and disgraced. Army of the Potomac historian and author Bruce Catton termed this request by Hooker "a strange and seemingly uncharacteristic...
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    concerning alcohol, and he became a teetotaler. According to historian Bruce Catton, Rawlins' abstention was caused by his belief that if he took even one...
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    and to mute the role of African Americans". Historian and journalist Bruce Catton argued that the myth or legend helped achieve national reconciliation...
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  • 1987) 1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1990) 1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978) 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American...
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    Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 78 and footnote 6. Foote 1974, pp. 464–519. Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword, pp. 263–296. McPherson 1988, pp. 424–427. McPherson...
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    the Dunbar, an automobile prototype. In an interview with historian Bruce Catton in 1928, Buick admitted that he was almost completely broke, unable to...
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  • most popular sweetheart 'separation' song in both the North and South." Bruce Catton wrote of the song, "it expressed the deep inner feeling of the boys who...
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  • standard biographies, campaign studies, and recent books by Hudson Strode, Bruce Catton, James G. Randall, Clifford Dowdey, T. Harry Williams, Kenneth M. Stampp...
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    it was closed. In his book Waiting for the Morning Train, historian Bruce Catton captured local history and documented his perspective of growing up in...
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    from above, presumably a sharpshooter in a tree or barn. Historians Bruce Catton and Glenn Tucker make firm assertions that a sharpshooter was responsible;...
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    Vietnam War, Grant's military reputation suffered again. In the 1960s Bruce Catton and T. Harry Williams began the reevaluation of Grant's military career...
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  • stockholders) as the school's "Guiding Faculty": Faith Baldwin, John Caples, Bruce Catton, Bennett Cerf, Mignon G. Eberhart, Paul Engle, Bergen Evans, Clifton...
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    Rachel Carson Silent Spring The Mother Hunt 7 Bruce Catton The Coming Fury "Murder Is Corny" 6 Bruce Catton Grant Takes Command Please Pass the Guilt 2...
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    Handlin The Uprooted 1953 George Dangerfield The Era of Good Feelings 1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox 1955 Paul Horgan Great River: The Rio Grande...
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  • Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009 ISBN 9780807861868 Bruce Catton. Brother Against Brother, American Heritage, 1961, Volume 12, Issue 3...
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  • Reflections on the Civil War (edited for Bruce Catton, 1981) The Blue and the Gray : a novel (with Bruce Catton and Ian McLellan Hunter, 1982) Direct relative...
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