This 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,...