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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 War. [1] Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history , featuring interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses.
Terrible Swift Sword, a 1976 board wargame that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg; Terrible Swift Sword , an episode of The 4400; Terrible Swift Sword (The Lost Regiment), the third book in William R. Forstchen's The Lost Regiment science fiction book series; Terrible Swift Sword, the second volume of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the ...
The title of John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lilies also came from this song, as did Terrible Swift Sword and Never Call Retreat, two volumes in Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War. Terrible Swift Sword is also the name of a board wargame simulating the Battle of Gettysburg. [30]
Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan. Da Capo Press, 2012. Da Capo Press, 2012. Wittenber, Eric J. Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan .
Terrible Swift Sword: Bruce Catton: Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" That Good Night: N. J. Crisp: Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" That Hideous Strength: C. S. Lewis: David Lyndsay, Ane Dialog: Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe: W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
Catton, Bruce, Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 2. Doubleday, 1963. ISBN 0-385-02614-5. Duffy, James P. Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. Wiley, 1997. ISBN 0-471-04208-0; Dufour, Charles L. The Night the War Was Lost. Garden City: Doubleday, 1960.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.-- first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly
A Stillness at Appomattox is a history of the American Civil War that recounts the final year. [1] Some of Catton's extensive work describes the Battle of the Wilderness, [2] the assault of the Mule Shoe at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, [3] the Battle of Cold Harbor, [4] the Battle of the Crater [5] and the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse.