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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, Chicago Daily News

A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else. —Burke Davis

To read this great narrative is to love the nation—to love it throu

The Civil War Fort Sumter to Perryville Volume 1

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 12/11/1986
      ISBN13: 9780394746234, 978-0394746234
      ISBN10: 0394746236

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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, Chicago Daily News

      A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else. —Burke Davis

      To read this great narrative is to love the nation—to love it throu

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