The Civil War: A Narrative : Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

The Civil War: A Narrative : Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 🔍

Foote, Shelby Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 1986

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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.'This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time.'—The Washington Post Book World'Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better.'—Atlantic'Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail.'—The New York Times Book Review'The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled.'—Walter Mills

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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vintage Civil War Library)

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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Vintage Civil War Library)

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The Civil War, Volume Two: Fredericksburg to Meridian

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The Civil War, Volume Three: Red River to Appomattox

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The Civil War, Volume One: Fort Sumter to Perryville

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Civil War. 3., Red River to Appomattox : a narrative

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Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set

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Shelby Foote, Grover Gardner narrator

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by Shelby Foote

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Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Random House, Incorporated

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New York: Vintage Books

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Random House AudioBooks

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Vintage; Vintage Books

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Vintage Civil War library, First Vintage books edition, New York, 1986

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Civil war generals, 1, 1st Vintage books ed, New York, 1986

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1st Vintage Books ed., New York, New York State, 1986

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Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 1963

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United States, United States of America

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Civil War Trilogy, 3, New York, 1986

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1st Printing, First Thus, PT, 1986

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1st, First Edition, US, 1986

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Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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subject: United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865

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contributor: Internet Archive

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unit_name: Internet Archive

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topic: United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865

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Type: 英文图书

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) I
1.1. (p2) 1. The Longest Journey
1.2. (p3) 2. Unhappy New Year
1.3. (p4) 3. Death of a Soldier
2. (p5) II
2.1. (p6) 4. The Beleaguered City
2.2. (p7) 5. Stars in their Courses
2.3. (p8) 6. Unvexed to the Sea
3. (p9) III
3.1. (p10) 7. Riot and Resurgence
3.2. (p11) 8. The Center Gives
3.3. (p12) 9. Spring Came on Forever
4. (p13) List of Maps, Bibliographical Note, and Index

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theme: United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) I
1.1. (p2) 1. Prologue-The Opponents
1.2. (p3) 2. First Blood; New Conceptions
1.3. (p4) 3. The Thing Gets Under Way
2. (p5) II
2.1. (p6) 4. War Means Fighting
2.2. (p7) 5. Fighting Means Killing
3. (p8) III
3.1. (p9) 6. The Sun Shines South
3.2. (p10) 7. Two Advances; Two Retreats
3.3. (p11) 8. Last, Best Hope of Earth
4. (p12) List of Maps, Bibliographical Notes, and Index

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Twenty years ago, in 1954, novelist Shelby Foote began this monumental work with these words: "It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate..."
In the third — and last — volume of this vivid history, he brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation.
"Red River to Appomattox" opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in North Georgia. While the Virginia-Georgia fighting is in progress, Kearsarge sinks the Alabama and Forrest gains new laurels at Brice's Crossroads.
With Grant and Lee deadlocked at Petersburg, Sherman takes Atlanta — assuring Lincoln's reelection, together with the certainty that the war will be fought (not negotiated) to a finish. These events are followed by Hood's bold northward strike through middle Tennessee while Sherman sets out on his march to the sea, to be opposed at its end by the ghost of the Army of Tennessee. Hood is wrecked by Thomas in front of Nashville-the last big battle — and Savannah falls to Sherman, who presents it to Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
Meantime, Early has threatened Washington, Price has toured Missouri, Farragut has damned the torpedoes in Mobile Bay, Forrest has raided Memphis, and Cushing has single-handedly sunk the Albemarle. And Sherman heads north through the Carolinas, burning Columbia en route, while Sheridan ripsthe entrails out of the Shenandoah Valley.
Lincoln's second inaugural sets the seal on these hostilities, invoking "charity for all" on the Eve of Five Forks and the Grant-Lee race for Appomattox. Here is the dust and stench of war, a sort of Twilight of the Gods, with occasional lurid flare-ups, mass desertions, and the queasiness that accompanies the risk of being the last man to die.
Then, penultimately. Lee at Appomattox, the one really shining figure in this last act.Davis's flight south from fallen Richmond overlaps Lincoln's death from Booth's derringer, and his capture at Irwinville comes amid the surrender of the last Confederate armies, east and west of the Mississippi River. The epilogue is Lincoln in his grave: and Davis in his posthumous existence. "Lucifer in Starlight."
So ends a unique achievement — already recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American — a narrative of over a million and a half words which recreates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: The Civil War

Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.

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The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for comments). In this dramatic second volume the scope and power, the lively portrayal of exciting personalities, and the memorable re-creation of events have continued unmistakably. In addition, Fredericksburg to Meridian covers many of the greatest and bloodiest battles of history.The authoritative narrative is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of great armies. For the fourth time, the Army of the Potomac (now under the command of Burnside) attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the blood-bath at Fredericksburg: Then Joe Hooker tries again, only to be repulsed at Chancellorsville as Stonewall Jackson turns his flank - a bitter victory for the South, paid for by the death' of Lee's foremost lieutenant.In the West, during the six-month standoff that followed the shock of Murfreesboro in the central theater, one of the most complex and determined sieges of the war has begun. Here Grant's seven relentless efforts against Vicksburg show Lincol that he has at last found his killer-genera the man who can face the arithmetic.With Vicksburg finally under siege, Lee again invades the North. The three-day conflict at Gettysburg receives book-length attention in a masterly treatment of a key great battle, not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.Then begins the downhill fight - the sudden glare of Chickamauga and the North's great day at Missionary Ridge, followed by the Florida fiasco and Sherman's meticulous destructionof Meridian, which left that section of the South facing the aftermath even before the war was over.Against this backdrop of smoke and battle, Lincoln and Davis try in their separate ways to hold their people together: Lincoln by letters and statements climaxing in the Gettysburg Address; and Davis by two long roundabout western trips in which he makes personal appeals to crowds along his way.Fredericksburg to Meridian is full of the life of the times - the elections of 1863, the resignations of Seward and Chase, the Conscription riots, the mounting opposition (on both sides) to the crushing war, and then the inescapable resolution that it must go on.And as before, the whole sweeping story is told entirely through the lives and actions of the people involved, a matchless narrative which could be sustained so brilliantly only by one of our finest novelists. This detailed, comprehensive account has been called one of the great historical narratives of our century. --Chicago Daily News

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foote's Comprehensive History Of The Civil War Includes Three Compelling Volumes: Fort Sumter To Perryville, Fredericksburg To Meridian, And Red River To Appomattox. Collected Together In A Handsome Boxed Set, This Is The Perfect Gift For Any Civil War Buff. fort Sumter To Perryville 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 Newsanyone 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 fredericksburg To Meridian this, Then, Is Narrative History—a Kind Of History That Goes Back To An Older Literary Tradition.... The Writing Is Superb...one Of The Historical And Literary Achievements Of Our Time. —the Washington Post Book Worldgettysburg...is Described With Such Meticulous Attention To Action, Terrain, Time, And The Characters Of The Various Commanders That I Understand, At Last, What Happened In That Battle.... Mr. Foote Has An Acute Sense Of The Relative Importance Of Events And A Novelist's Skill In Directing The Reader's Attention To The Men And The Episodes That Will Influence The Course Of The Whole War, Without Omitting Items Which Are Of Momentary Interest. His Organization Of Facts Could Hardly Be Bettered. —atlantic red River To Appomattox an Unparalleled Achievement, An American iliad, A Unique Work Uniting The Scholarship Of The Historian And The High Readability Of The First-class Novelist. —walker Percyi Have Never Read A Better, More Vivid, More Understandable Account Of The Savage Battling Between Grant's And Lee's Armies.... Foote Stays With The Human Strife And Suffering, And Unlike Most Southern Commentators, He Does Not Take Sides. In Objectivity, In Range, In Mastery Of Detail In Beauty Of Language And Feeling For The People Involved, This Work Surpasses Anything Else On The Subject.... It Stands Alongside The Work Of The Best Of Them. —new Republic foote's Comprehensive History Of The Civil War Includes Three Compelling Volumes: Fort Sumter To Perryville, Fredericksburg To Meridian, And Red River To Appomattox.

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An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist. —Walker PercyI have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them. —New RepublicFoote is a novelist who temporarily abandoned fiction to apply the novelist's shaping hand to history: his model is not Thucydides but The Iliad, and his story, innocent of notes and formal bibliography, has a literary design. Not by accident...but for cathartic effect is so much space given to the war's unwinding, it's final shudders and convulsions.... To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again. —NewsweekThe most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote's trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves. —Providence Journal

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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. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote's epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout.'Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives...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'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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This final volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln. Features maps throughout.'An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.'—Walker Percy “To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again.” —Newsweek “In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail, in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... Written in the tradition of the great historian-artists—Gibbon, Prescott, Napier, Freeman—it stands alongside the work of the best of them.” —The New Republic “The most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote's trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves.” —Providence Journal

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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-listen for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history.

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Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife that altered American life forever. The final volume opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in North Georgia in 1864. The narrative describes the events and battles from Sherman's March to the Sea to Lincoln's assassination and the surrender of Lee at Appomattox

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One of the best histories of the Civil War. Told in a conversational style by Shelby Foote from the Ken Burns PBS series "The Civil War"
A must read for anyone interested in the war, or interested in the United States. If you are not a fan of all things Civil War before you will be after! Shelby Foote keeps your interest like none other, do not miss this classic.

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A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.

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Includes bibliographies and indexes
[1] Fort Sumter to Perryville -- [2] Fredericksburg to Meridian -- [3] Red River to Appomattox

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2023-06-28

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