![]() ![]() In those final days of the war, the Union’s victory was gradually becoming inevitable. The book received a Pulitzer Prize in 1954. ![]() ![]() It looked not only at evidence about the strategies and messages that were deployed and exchanged, but also attempted to reconstruct the attitudes and perspectives of the individuals who faced the war’s violence and precarity. The book received widespread acclaim for historicizing the last phase of the war more comprehensively than most history books of its time. The third book in a trilogy, it chronicles the final campaign of the Civil War in Virginia, which culminated at a courthouse at the titular location in Virginia. A Stillness at Appomattox is a 1953 work of historical nonfiction by American journalist and historian Bruce Catton. ![]()
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