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  1. Jun 23, 2024 · 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.

  2. Jun 11, 2024 · The first volume of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative takes you from the lead-up to the Civil War through Antietam and the end of 1862 in some 800 odd pages. Foote, by virtue of being a novelist rather than a historian, does an unbelievably entertaining job communicating the saga of the Civil War.

  3. 1 day ago · 1) Ken Burns' The Civil War (1990) Ken Burns ' The Civil War is a groundbreaking documentary series that aired in 1990. This nine-episode series delves into the American Civil War, covering the period from 1861 to 1865. The series utilizes contemporary cinematography alongside thousands of archival photographs, paintings, and newspaper images ...

  4. Jun 15, 2024 · The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote.2011-01-26 Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Includes maps throughout.

  5. Jun 13, 2024 · Stephen White of Catholic University shares lessons from Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative as he listens to it on his commute: “And that only accounts for Northern opinion.

  6. 2 days ago · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights.

  7. 1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.