WAITING FOR THE MORNING TRAIN: AN AMERICAN BOYHOOD
by BRUCE CATION 260 pages. Doubleday. $7.95.
Bruce Catton is a gentle soul. Even his 13 Civil War bookswhile alive and ablaze with the sights and sounds of doomed men dashing up grassy slopes, or storming across stubbled cornfields, or simply slaughtering one another are curiously gentle. There is not much blood and guts in Catton's works. Men either die bravely or they simply die. All are controlled by a civilization they cannot understand.
Now, at 72, Catton takes leave of the Civil War to recall his...
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