![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() This trilogy has also been republished as a boxed set under the title Bruce Cattons Civil War. The 3-volume set includes The Coming Fury, Terrible Swift Sword, and Never Call Retreat. Catton's brilliance as a historian lay in his ability to bring to historical narrative the immediacy of reportage. The Centennial History of the Civil War is Cattons second trilogy on the Civil War. A commission to write a Centennial History of the Civil War evolved into Catton's celebrated trilogy on the Army of the Potomac. In 1954 he became a member of the staff of American Heritage magazine, and from 1959 he served as its senior editor. He subsequently worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Service (1926-41) and for the U.S. While he was employed as a reporter for the Boston American, the Cleveland News, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1920-26), Catton continued his lifelong study of the Civil War period. His education at Oberlin College, Ohio, was interrupted by two years of naval service in World War I and was subsequently abandoned for a career in journalism. As a child living in a small town in Michigan, Catton was stimulated by the reminiscences of the Civil War that he heard from local veterans. ![]()
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