Born: 10/09/1899   Petoskey , MI
Died: 08/28/1978
Parents: George R. and Adella M. Catton
Spouse: Hazel H. Cherry Catton
Children: William Bruce
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Interred: Benzonia Township Cemetery
Benzonia , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Reflections on the Civil War - Edited by John Leekley	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1981
	Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works - Edited by Oliver Jensen	History	Adult	New York: American Heritage	1980
	The Bold and Magnificent Dream: America's Founding Years, 1492-1815	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1978
	Michigan: A Bicentennial History - With W.B. Catton	History , Michigan	Adult	New York: W.W. Norton and American Association of Local History	1976
	Gettysburg: The Final Fury	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1974
	Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood - Originally published by Wayne State University Press, 1987.	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1972
	Grant Takes Command	History	Adult	Boston: Little, Brown	1969
	Never Call Retreat	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1965
	American Heritage Short History of the Civil War	History	Adult	New York: Dell Publishing	1963
	Terrible Swift Sword - With William Catton	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1963
	Two Roads to Sumter - With William Catton	History	Adult	New York: McGraw Hill	1963
	The Army of the Potomac - Consolidation of three books	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1962
	The Coming Fury - Centennial History of the Civil War.	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1961
	Grant Moves South	History	Adult	Boston: Little, Brown and Co.	1960
	American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War - Editor	History	Adult , Teen	New York: American Heritage Publishing	1960
	America Goes to War	History	Adult	Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press	1958
	The Battle of Gettysburg by Franklin Haskell - Editor			Houghton	1958
	This hallowed ground; the story of the Union side of the Civil War - Republished 1962.	History	Adult	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday	1956
	American Heritage Reader - Editor	History	Adult	New York: Dell Publishing Co.	1956
	Banners at Shenandoah : a story of Sheridan's fighting cavalry	Historical Fiction , Michigan	Teen	Garden City, NY: Doubleday	1955
	U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition	History	Adult	Boston: Little, Brown and Company	1954
	A Stillness at Appomattox - Army of the Potomac Trilogy. 1954 Pulitzer Prize Winner	History	Adult	Garden City, NY: Doubleday	1953
	Glory Road - Army of the Potomac Trilogy.	History	Adult	Garden City, NY: Doubleday	1952
	Mr. Lincoln's Army - Army of the Potomac Trilogy. (Gathered material from diaries, letters, and soldiers' reports)	History	Adult	Garden City, NY: Doubleday	1951
	War Lords of Washington	History	Adult	New York : Harcourt, Brace	1948

What is the aim or goal of your writing: When awarded the National Book Award for "Stillness at Appomattox", the author said: "What both the reporter and the historian are really looking at is people on the march....What we see, if we look closely, is that the sum of many small victories won by individual human beings...is a victory for all of us....Out of sight, somewhere, something great is moving." Catton credited his Michigan background with: "When I was growing up in Northern Michigan, all the old men in town were Civil War veterans. We boys used to sit around and listen to their yarns, and see them parading in the Fourth of July celebrations."

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