![]() ![]() ![]() In 1977, the year before his death, Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald R. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, a recount of the most spectacular conflicts between Generals Grant and Lee in the final year of the Civil War, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Catton worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. ![]() A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. Bruce Catton, whose complete name was Charles Bruce Catton, was born in Petoskey, Michigan, on October 9, 1899. ![]()
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