The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Second Manassas to Perryville The Sun Shines South

The Civil War: A Narrative #3

by Shelby Foote

Manassass II to Perryville.

Genres: Civil War, History, Nonfiction

305 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

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. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am enjoying the series, lots of detailed information. If I try to keep track of everyone and everything I get overwhelmed. But if I surround myself with story, it's pretty good. Reasoner has a Civil War fiction series and I am considering that as well, it might be easier to keep up with.