Never Call Retreat (The Centennial History of the Civil War Volume 3)

"In The Coming Fury, the first volume of this magnificent American Civil War trilogy, Bruce Catton described the forces that combined to drive the United States apart - a portrait of a gathering storm finally erupting at Bull Run. In the second volume, Terrible Swift Sword, he showed how the Union and Confederacy slowly reconciled themselves to all-out war. In Never Call Retreat, the concluding volume, Bruce Catton covers the most bitter years of the war when death stalked the country with a brutality unparalleled in the history of the United States. In the North, Lincoln remained resolute in the belief that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand'. In the hopelessly fragmented and underdeveloped South, Jefferson Davis struggled valiantly for political and economic stability. Tracing the war from Fredericksburg to a courthouse at Appomattox to the end of the Confederacy and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Catton concludes his thrillingly readable account of the American Civil War." CONTENTS: Publisher's Note; List of Maps; IN THE RAPIDS: Castles in the Air; Battle without Logic; The Politics of War; In the Mists at Stone's River; Paralysis of Command; A Question of Control; PARTING OF THE RED SEA WAVES: The Land of Cotton; In Motion in All Directions; The Needs of Two Armies; A Bridge for the Moderates; The Way of the Liberated; REMORSELESS REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE: Ironclads at Charleston; Men Trained for Command; The Darkness, and Jackson, and Fear; Aftermath of Victory; Mirage on the Skyline; Encounter at Gettysburg; IN LETTERS OF BLOOD: All or Nothing; The Notion of Equality; Servants of the Guns; The Road to Zion; A Mad Irregular Battle; 37,000 Plus One; THE IMPOSSIBILITIES: The Impassable Gulf; Eloquence at Gettysburg; Amnesty and Suffrage; Solitary in a Crowd; The General and the Statesman; ACT OF FAITH: The Last Barrier; Sideshows; The Cork in the Bottle; However Bold We Might Be; Vested Interest in Failure; A Grand Simplicity of Purpose; HIS ALMOST CHOSEN PEOPLE: Appeal Against the Thunderstorm; What Have You Done?; Too Late; None Shall Be Weary; As in the Old Days; To the Dark Indefinite Shore; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.