Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served in the European theater as a captain of field artillery. In the period since the war, he wrote five novels: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.
“Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives
of our century, 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
“This is historical writing at its best. . . . It can hardly be
surpassed.”—Library Journal
“Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of
Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.
. . . Years from now, Foote’s monumental narrative most likely will
continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind.”—New
York Herald Tribune Book Review
“To read this great narrative is to love the nation—to love it
through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who
ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers,
observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps
should not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it. . . . This work
was done to last forever.”—James M. Cox, Southern Review
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