Bruce Catton was the foundering editor of American Heritage and arguably the most prolific and popular of all Civil War historians. He wrote an astonishing 167 articles for the magazine and won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the last campaign of the war in Virginia. Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Gerald Ford in 1977. James M. McPherson is a leading Civil War historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the highly acclaimed Battle Cry Freedom. The George Henry Davis Emeritus Professor of American History and Princeton University, he was awarded the Pritzker Military Library Literature award for lifetime achievement in military history in 2007, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.