Foote was little known to the general public until his appearance in Ken Burns 's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war …

Nov 12, 1986 · Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected …

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative.

Shelby Foote studied at the North Carolina University as well as served in the U.S. Army and Marine . Also known as a historian, Shelby establishing himself as a novelist, and spent about …

Shelby Foote was an American historian, novelist, and short-story writer known for his works treating the United States Civil War and the American South. Foote attended the University of …

What is The Civil War: A Narrative about? This trilogy chronicles the American Civil War with vivid detail. Shelby Foote combines rich storytelling with thorough research. The work spans the …

Nov 12, 1986 · 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 …

The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) is a three-volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote. Although previously known as a novelist, Foote is …

Shelby Foote, born on November 17, 1916, in Greenville, Mississippi, was a distinguished American historian and novelist best known for his comprehensive and evocative narrative of …

Fascinated by war and frustrated by his own lack of battle experience, Foote turned somewhat naturally to Civil War fiction; after all, his own paternal great-grandfather had led the 1st …