This is a neat old book about the Civil War. The book was published in 1952 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. This is a copy of the 1954 printing. The book measures 5 7/8 inches by 8 ½ inches and contains 416 pages. The dust jacket shows signs of wear to the edges with a few chips and rips. The dust jacket is in fair condition and is currently in a protective cover. The black cloth cover of the book itself shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The title is in gilt on the spine. The end pages have pictorial maps. The front free end page has the signature of a previous owner at the top right hand edge. There is a personal book plate on the inside front cover. An embossed personal library marking is on the half title page and on the final page of the book. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old book is near very good.

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
In those critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer of the following year, the eventual outcome of the Civil War was determined by the Army of the Potomac. After a bloody massacre at Fredericksburg, an aimless and muddy march up and down the banks of the Rappahannock, and a catastrophe of the confusion at Chancellorsville, this army took a firm stand on the hills to the west of a small Pennsylvania town called Gettysburg and finally turned the fortunes of the war against the Confederacy.

Here is the exciting story of this Army of the Potomac, of the people in it, and of the nation it defended. Of enlistees, volunteers, and bounty men alike, who fought like fiends during each engagement but swapped coffee and tobacco with the rebels between skirmishes. And of three generals in command during this crucial period: Burnside, “who meant so well and did so badly”; Hooker, a soldier’s soldier who improved rations but was surprised into a disastrous defeat; and Meade, who took over only three days before the decisive battle of Gettysburg.

Full of human-interest stories which bring history to vivid life, this panorama of an army and of a nation at war introduces such unheralded notables as the New York businessman turned soldier who invented “Taps”; Vallandigham, copperhead candidate for governor of Ohio, who was one of President Lincoln’s “hottest potatoes”; the army laundress, Annie Etheridge, who brought hot coffee and hardtack to men on the firing line, John C. Robinson, the “hairiest officer in a much bearded army”; and Private Patrick Maloney, who bodily seized and captured a Confederate general.

From letters and diaries, official records, reports, and reminiscences, Bruce Catton has written history in its most exciting form, a veritable cinematic account of one desperate phase in one desperate war, the bloody, muddy, tortuous route that the Army of the Potomac plodded to victory.
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