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 82
... column fell back over the run , McDowell did what he could to save the day . Two brigades , withdrawn from the fords below Stone Bridge , along with the one reserve brigade and some regiments just arrived from Alexandria , were combined ...
... column fell back over the run , McDowell did what he could to save the day . Two brigades , withdrawn from the fords below Stone Bridge , along with the one reserve brigade and some regiments just arrived from Alexandria , were combined ...
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... column southward , west of the river , to assist in an attempt to bag or destroy a force under M. Jeff Thompson , reported down near the Missouri boot - heel , in the St Francis River area . Two days later a dispatch informed him that ...
... column southward , west of the river , to assist in an attempt to bag or destroy a force under M. Jeff Thompson , reported down near the Missouri boot - heel , in the St Francis River area . Two days later a dispatch informed him that ...
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... column and took the lead . By then it was late afternoon , and Polk was held up till after sunset . When he stopped for the night he had covered a scant nine miles . Down on the lower road , Bragg's unwieldy column did no better ...
... column and took the lead . By then it was late afternoon , and Polk was held up till after sunset . When he stopped for the night he had covered a scant nine miles . Down on the lower road , Bragg's unwieldy column did no better ...
Contents
Prologue The Opponents | 3 |
First Blood New Conceptions | 73 |
The Thing Gets Under Way | 168 |
Copyright | |
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