This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War (Wordsworth Military Library)

by Bruce Catton

Paperback, 1998

Collection

Your library

Series

Great Men and Great Events

Mainstream of America Series (13)

Publication

Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1998), 437 pages

Description

The classic one-volume history of the American Civil War simultaneously captures the dramatic scope and intimate experience of that epic struggle, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton. Covering events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln, Catton blends a gripping narrative with deep, yet unassuming, scholarship to bring the war alive on the page in an almost novelistic way. It is this gift for narrative that led contemporary critics to compare this book to War and Peace, and call it a "modern Iliad." Now over fifty years old, This Hallowed Ground remains one of the best-loved and admired general Civil War books: a perfect introduction to readers beginning their exploration of the conflict, as well as a thrilling analysis and reimagining of its events for experienced students of the war. Includes maps.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member davetherave

Hardly a book for light reading, but to a student of the American Civil War no doubt a valuable reference book.

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LibraryThing member worldsedge

The title is extremely misleading in that it really isn't about the North necessarily. Like everything else I've read by Catton, it is mostly about the military conflict, very little about the off-battlefield is discussed. I get the feeling big chunks of this work were dropped wholesale into his

Centennial series, though I'm too lazy to go lookin in depth.

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LibraryThing member antiquary

Vividly written but a little dated in its attitudes, especially its
hostility to the Radical Republicans

LibraryThing member MrsLee

A history of the Civil War campaigns from the Union Army perspective, I cannot say whether this is a good or bad book on the subject. I found once I had begun it that my interest in the subject was null. It was written for youth, the illustrations were either old drawings or photos of army

soldiers. Perhaps my children would have been able to get through this if they were assigned it in school, but I was not, so I quit reading it.

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