The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1
Fort Sumter to Perryville
Ranked #15 in Whiskey, Ranked #28 in Civil War — see more rankings.
This first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United States 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 novel.
“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... more
“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... more
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1 is ranked in the following categories:
- #85 in US History
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