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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... guns were still there : whereupon he ordered the gates broken open , helped the watchmen drag the guns out , and saw them loaded onto a north - bound train . Next morning the arsenal officer reported that he had not found it convenient ...
... guns were still there : whereupon he ordered the gates broken open , helped the watchmen drag the guns out , and saw them loaded onto a north - bound train . Next morning the arsenal officer reported that he had not found it convenient ...
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... guns were limited in traverse . The effectiveness of her knockout punch , demon- strated yesterday when she rammed the Cumberland , was considerably reduced by the loss of her iron beak . Also , she had come out armed for the ...
... guns were limited in traverse . The effectiveness of her knockout punch , demon- strated yesterday when she rammed the Cumberland , was considerably reduced by the loss of her iron beak . Also , she had come out armed for the ...
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... guns unloaded , not a single Federal vessel was prepared for action ; but this was presently so thoroughly corrected that Brown could later say , “ I had the most lively realization of having steamed into a real volcano . " Guns were ...
... guns unloaded , not a single Federal vessel was prepared for action ; but this was presently so thoroughly corrected that Brown could later say , “ I had the most lively realization of having steamed into a real volcano . " Guns were ...
Contents
Prologue The Opponents | 3 |
First Blood New Conceptions | 73 |
The Thing Gets Under Way | 168 |
Copyright | |
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