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The Civil War

Shelby Foote

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1958
Pages
Pages 3000

A historian narrates the entire American Civil War as one continuous story, from secession through every major battle to the surrender, treating its generals and politicians as characters inside a single unfolding drama.

It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate.
The Civil War, Shelby Foote

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