This was a really enjoyable podcast Gary Gallagher is one of the best I could listen to him all day long

Thoroughly enjoyable! I have most of Cattons works and mostly first editions and signed. After this I'm ready to buy a set to reread and give my grandsons.

@emergingcivilwar8965

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Hopefully it will get them as hooked as you are!

@bjohnson515

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Make sure they are edited by Gallagher.

Great interview, love Bruce Catton books. I will have to get a copy of this new edition. My favorite Bruce Catton book is “This Hallowed Ground”.

Always a great podcast with these two expert in the mix! Thanks in advance.

@emergingcivilwar8965

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We hope you enjoyed!

Excellent. Thank you very much

Wonderful interview! It was so great to have the context as to when Cayton wrote the trilogy and his background. I’m really excited for the project on his mom’s WWII experience as well. That sounds like an amazing read!

Love Gary Gallagher!

@emergingcivilwar8965

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As all good Civil War folks should!

Just that Gary Gallagher and probably most of us have actually played your eyes cat and work without

I read Catton when I was in high school, then I grew up I began instead -- by chance later, to read SOUTHERN newspapers at the time SOUTHERN speeches, at the time Southern books -- at the time SOuthern War Ultimatums -- at the time First thing I stumbled on was Jeff Davis Macon speech about the extremely high desertion rates by his troops -- and his insane claim to the audience that a woman came up to him and begged him to save a spot in the rebel army for her 8 year old son -- after three or four of her others sons died in Davis's Army. There are thousands of things I came about it newspapers -- SOUTHERN newspapers, and SOUTHERN publications and SOUTHERN books saved digitally, by the like of Charles Robinson, Eli Thayer. Very little of these things did I hear anything about -- that I remember in college history courses, and readings until that point. South leaders bragging starting 1856 of using paid killers -- paid -- that's a big deal, Davis used about 2000 paid Texas men to invade Kansas. Sure was a big deal to Charles Robinson in Kansas -- sure was a big deal to Lincoln. Sure was a big deal to David Rice Atchison. Sure was a big deal to John Brown. Sure was a big deal to Jeff Davis to hire them and get them to Kansas. But it was not big deal to Bruce Catton (nor many others) enough that they would mention Davis hired those paid men, and mention with some clarity, candidly that Davis sent them to Kansas to terrorize, torture and kill to spread slavery, So in that sense, .Bruce Catton probably made more people stupid about the US Civil War than anyone I can think of -- other than Shelby Foote. Catton, for example, seemed to hate Charles Sumner -- and like Jeff Davis. How dare Sumner speak so smugly and insult those wonderful men of God who tortured and killed to spread slavery. Not one time -- in any Catton book, did Bruce even mention Jeff Davis's paid Texas men he sent to Kansas in 1854 and 1856. No mention that Davis justified his paid killers by his duty to god and the Dred Scott decision. And of course McPherson actually used Bruce Catton's "narrative" and made that clear. Which means, simply, McPherson nor Catton was going to explain candid that ALREADY -- ALREADY South leaders ALREADY sent over 2000 paid men to invade toture and kill Kansas citizens and they bragged about it. Which means McPherson is not going to expose, much less blame, specific Southern leaders hiring paid killers to invade terrorize torture and kill to SPREAD slavery to the Pacific. Maybe we should be glad Catton did not brag about Davis sending the paid killers, etc. At least that's something.

Bruce Catton's trilogy is wonderfully readable. I think I may have been nine or ten when I first read it. I thought I could tell when I read it but I must have handed the set on to one of our children or our grandchildren.

Catton was the man.

My mother kept a diary of every day of my senior year. It’s pretty personal. Some days are multiple pages long.

I have, I believe, read every thing Bruce Catton wrote. In many extended passages, especially in "A Stillness at Appomattox", I think Catton's writing is more akin to prose poetrythan mere narrative. He has no equal.

I found a book on KZread by James Ford Rhodes does anybody know anything about him it sounds like it was made way early on

McClean was given the gift of the CW. He knew Lee's position and that of his LT's. Attack, a forced march would have ended the CW yrs earlier. D H Hill lost his orders and it was the Union's Army's gain

He has made a cottage industry of "editing" the works of others. The book he should EDIT is Liz Varon's rewrite of history in her book "Apppomattox"

@emergingcivilwar8965

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From Chris: "Editing is actually a lot more work than people realize. I give kudos to Gary for his editing work because he has used that approach to share the work of a lot of historians with wide audiences. I admire the opportunities he has made for others through the books and collections he has edited."

@bjohnson515

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@@emergingcivilwar8965 He reissues the works of others under his name. Who was clamoring for Catton to be edited? Does Catton need to be edited? Unless I missed it, the greatest narrator wasnt mentioned....Shelby Foote

@thefirstgayexvicepresident225

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How did she rewrite history? Catton is better than Foote and so is Gallagher for that matter. Foote has too much Lost Cause nonsense leanings.

@bjohnson515

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@@thefirstgayexvicepresident225 Its "Catton". Varon wrote her book Appomattox based on supposition. Example: Pp103 Author declares she knows what Lee meant in his Farewell Address, though he didn’t say it. “ Example:he author additionally insists the USCTs shared their rations with CSA soldiers who would, days before shoot or enslave them. From Armistead Long’s book, partially noted by the author, those rations were the very same CSA rations captured by Union troops a few days earlier. Fast and loose.

@bjohnson515

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Example: Pp187 Remarkably, the author confronts history with this quip. In reference to an interview conducted with Lee, she says..” Could he (Lee) really have said the things that Cook (interviewer) attributes to him?” She doesnt believe the words Lee actually said...because it doesnt align with her beliefs and book theme.

Thanks