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 94
... side ; for a cheer seemed as oddly out of place as a plume . The men went about their deadly business of firing and reloading and melting away in a grim silence broken only by the rattling crash of musketry and the deeper roar of guns ...
... side ; for a cheer seemed as oddly out of place as a plume . The men went about their deadly business of firing and reloading and melting away in a grim silence broken only by the rattling crash of musketry and the deeper roar of guns ...
Page 287
... side of Pea Ridge to join Van Dorn and Price , whose battle still raged near Elkhorn Tavern . News of his right wing's disintegration reached Van Dorn as one more in a series of disappointments and vexations . Repeated checks and delays ...
... side of Pea Ridge to join Van Dorn and Price , whose battle still raged near Elkhorn Tavern . News of his right wing's disintegration reached Van Dorn as one more in a series of disappointments and vexations . Repeated checks and delays ...
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... side of the river . His presence on the west side is not less necessary now than heretofore , and will probably soon be more so . The coöperation designed by me was in co - intelligent action on both sides of the river of such ...
... side of the river . His presence on the west side is not less necessary now than heretofore , and will probably soon be more so . The coöperation designed by me was in co - intelligent action on both sides of the river of such ...
Contents
Prologue The Opponents | 3 |
First Blood New Conceptions | 73 |
The Thing Gets Under Way | 168 |
Copyright | |
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