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 92
... troops returned to camp and settled down to sleep , not bothering to put out pickets . At dawn the storm of Lyon's attack exploded in their rear . The red - haired Federal was also a veteran of Mexico , where he had won promotion for ...
... troops returned to camp and settled down to sleep , not bothering to put out pickets . At dawn the storm of Lyon's attack exploded in their rear . The red - haired Federal was also a veteran of Mexico , where he had won promotion for ...
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... troops . Except for one regiment , which was cut off in the fighting and marched upstream to be picked up later , he was the last man aboard the final transport . The skipper had already pushed off , but looking back he recog- nized the ...
... troops . Except for one regiment , which was cut off in the fighting and marched upstream to be picked up later , he was the last man aboard the final transport . The skipper had already pushed off , but looking back he recog- nized the ...
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... troops with their squirrel guns and fowling pieces to man the rifle pits blocking the landward approaches . If no help came , he would fight with what he had . However , as the day wore on and the transports returned with further relays ...
... troops with their squirrel guns and fowling pieces to man the rifle pits blocking the landward approaches . If no help came , he would fight with what he had . However , as the day wore on and the transports returned with further relays ...
Contents
Prologue The Opponents | 3 |
First Blood New Conceptions | 73 |
The Thing Gets Under Way | 168 |
Copyright | |
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