The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to PerryvilleThis first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout. "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives…a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."—Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News "A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else." —Burke Davis "To read this great narrative is to love the nation—to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps should not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it.... This work was done to last forever." —James M. Cox, Southern Review |
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Page 182
... Grant had been pretending to threaten Columbus . Smith was sixty , with a ramrod stiffness , a habit of profanity , and a white walrus mustache . He had been commandant of cadets when Grant was at West Point , but now , as was often the ...
... Grant had been pretending to threaten Columbus . Smith was sixty , with a ramrod stiffness , a habit of profanity , and a white walrus mustache . He had been commandant of cadets when Grant was at West Point , but now , as was often the ...
Page 317
... Grant has resumed his former bad habits . If so , it will account for his neglect of my often - repeated orders . " To any- one with an ear for army gossip , and McClellan's was highly tuned in that respect , this meant that Grant was ...
... Grant has resumed his former bad habits . If so , it will account for his neglect of my often - repeated orders . " To any- one with an ear for army gossip , and McClellan's was highly tuned in that respect , this meant that Grant was ...
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... Grant . First , the evacuation of Columbus had relieved Halleck's fears that the Confederates were about to unleash an attack on Cairo or Paducah , and while Curtis was stopping Van Dorn at Elkhorn Tavern , Pope was applying a bear hug ...
... Grant . First , the evacuation of Columbus had relieved Halleck's fears that the Confederates were about to unleash an attack on Cairo or Paducah , and while Curtis was stopping Van Dorn at Elkhorn Tavern , Pope was applying a bear hug ...
Contents
Prologue The Opponents | 3 |
First Blood New Conceptions | 73 |
The Thing Gets Under Way | 168 |
Copyright | |
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