A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote\'s landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote\'s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as ``an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.`` Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch,.
A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote\'s landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote\'s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as ``an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.`` Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch,