Civil War a Narrative; 3 Volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox

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Mississippi Writers Trail markers for Shelby Foote and Walker Percy unveiled in Greenville | Mississippi Development Authority". Mississippi.org . Retrieved June 16, 2020. Meacham, Jon, ed. (2011). American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic The Civil War: A Narrative . New York: Random House.

David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001), 139. Mitchell, Douglas. "'The conflict is behind me now': Shelby Foote writes the Civil War." Southern Literary Journal 36#1 (2003), p.21+. online He has written quite a number of amazing novels , which gained popularity in Italy and France, but were substantially overshadowed by epic masterpiece; the Civil-War, Narrative.And, as George Steiner says, at the rows of students sniggering automatically at every mention of the Sunday supplements. There’s nothing better for a writer than to be reluctant to go to bed, anxious to wake up and start again. That’s living. That’s what I felt. Any understanding of this nation has to be based, and I mean really based, on an understanding of the Civil War. I believe that firmly. It defined us. The Revolution did what it did. Our involvement in European wars, beginning with the First World War, did what it did. But the Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. And it is very necessary, if you are going to understand the American character in the twentieth century, to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-nineteenth century. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". Achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. Foote's family had once belonged to the delta aristocracy of southern Mississippi. His ancestors had taken part in the war of independence, and played a prominent part in the early history of the south. His slave-owning great-grandfather, Hezekiah, fought for the Confederacy at the battle of Shiloh in 1862. Though Shelby has been married thrice, he has spent the last 33-years with his third wife, Gwyn Rainer. They both lived in a Tudor house covered with magnolias on the boulevard of grand-homes.

Saint Louis Literary Award – Saint Louis University". Slu.edu. Archived from the original on August 23, 2016 . Retrieved July 16, 2018. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Random House. 1958. ISBN 0-307-29039-5.