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Shelby Foote
Author · 33 books
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' 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."

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The Civil War, Vol. 2 book cover

The Civil War, Vol. 2

Fredericksburg to Meridian

1963

The Civil War, Vol. 3 book cover

The Civil War, Vol. 3

Red River to Appomattox

1974

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative: Vol. 14: Fort Stedman to Reconstruction

1974

Tournament book cover

Tournament

1949

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 9: Five Forks To Appomattox: Victory And Defeat

1974

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative: Vol. 5: Fredericksbury to Steele Bayou

1777

Follow Me Down book cover

Follow Me Down

1950

A Treasury of Civil War Stories book cover

A Treasury of Civil War Stories

1986

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 8: Petersburg to Savannah War is Cruelty - You Cannot Refine It

2023

The Civil War. A Narrative, Volume 7 book cover

The Civil War. A Narrative, Volume 7

Red River To Chattahoochee

2005

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative

1963

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 9: Mine Run to Meridian

2001

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 2: Pea Ridge To The Seven Days War Means Fighting, Fighting Means Killing

1958

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Shiloh

1952

Stars in Their Courses book cover

Stars in Their Courses

The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

1994

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 6: Tullahoma To Meridian, Riot And Resurgence

1963

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Love in a Dry Season

1951

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 5: Gettysburg To Vicksburg

1963

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The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 10: Red River to Spotsylvania

2008

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The Civil War

A Narrative: Vol. 8: Tullahoma to Missionary Ridge

1999

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September, September

1978

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Kernstown: First Blood--The Thing Gets Underway

1958

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The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 11: Yellow Tavern to Cold Harbor

2000

Jordan County book cover

Jordan County

1954

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 6: Charleston Harbor to Vicksburg

2002

The Civil War, Vol. 1 book cover

The Civil War, Vol. 1

Fort Sumter to Perryville

1958

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 7: Gettysburg to Draft Riots

1999

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Conversations with Shelby Foote

1989

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy book cover

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy

1996

The Beleaguered City book cover

The Beleaguered City

The Vicksburg Campaign

1995

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 12: James Crossing to Johnsonville

1974

Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories book cover

Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories

1993

The Civil War book cover

The Civil War

A Narrative, Volume 4: Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville- The Longest Journey

1963

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