The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.

FOOTE, Shelby.

Item Number: 83476

New York: Random House, 1958-74.

Early printings of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, 3 volumes, cartographic endpapers. With a laid in signed note from Shelby Foote, dated May 4th, 1991 Memphis and reads, “Dear Mr. Ward, 4 May 91, Memphis I thank you for the invitation to visit Hotchkiss and the CWRT next January, but I hope to be back at my desk where I belong, hard at work and determined not to glance aside. With Best Wishes, Shelby Foote.” Each are near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets with light rubbing.

"Shelby Foote remained relatively unknown before his role in Ken Burns’ [documentary film] The Civil War made him a cultural icon. Since that event, Foote has become widely viewed as an authority on the Civil War, and more generally, as a representative of an era and region whose place continues to be central to our country’s understanding of itself" (University of Mississippi). "His mission was to tell what he considered America’s biggest story as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human narrative A model of what military history can be" (New York Times). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.