A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is a non-fiction history book written by Bruce Catton.

[1] A Stillness at Appomattox is a history of the American Civil War that recounts the final year.

[7] Other American Civil War generals he describes include George Gordon Meade, Philip Sheridan, and Robert E.

[1] In his book's endnotes, Catton wrote that he used official war records, various collections of unpublished letters written by Federal soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families,[8][9] Also mentioned are many autobiographies, biographical studies, and memoirs of descendants of soldiers and ranking personnel.

[12] Other major works he consulted were Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (1888), edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, and Dictionary of American Biography (1943), edited by Dumas Malone.