by Shelby Foote
I've been reading a lot of popular histories lately and more and more have become disenchanted with the kind of history book that tells a reader that a man's "heart beat faster" or "pupils flared" when to say the least, the chances the historian pulled that detail out of a diary or letter are low. A...
This book is the first in a trilogy - a detailed narrative on the events of the Civil War. This book introduced the primary characters of the war, and the issues that were behind it and then covered the events from Fort Sumter to Perryville. It includes battle details, political climates, personal...
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