A Stillness at Appomattox Author:Bruce Catton Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Caton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy. This final volume of The Army of th... more »e Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.« less