The Civil War. A Narrative, Volume 7: Red River To Chattahoochee

The Civil War: A Narrative #7

by Shelby Foote

Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War.

Genres: History, Civil War, Nonfiction

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

[E.J. Cullen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inspired writing, lively history, but so detailed with specifics as to be not recommended for the general reader.