Combat: The Civil War (Civil War Library)

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DON CONGDON (1918-2009) was a noted literary agent and editor who helped bring Ray Bradbury into the foreground of the writing world. In 1983 he started his own literary agency, Don Congdon Associates. He edited numerous anthologies of writings on World Wars I and II, the 1930s, and mystery and horror stories.

BRUCE CATTON (1899-1978), author and editor, is best known as a Civil War historian. Born in Michigan, he served in the navy and worked for newspapers and the federal government before publishing his first Civil War book, Mr. Lincoln's Army, at age fifty-one. In 1954, the year he became the editor of American Heritage magazine, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book A Stillness at Appomattox.