Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
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Shelby Foote, who cut such a courtly figure in Ken Burns's PBS series <i>The Civil War</i>, is an uncommonly graceful writer as well, and this careful study of the 1863 Gettysburg campaign assumes the contours of a classical tragedy. Foote positions readers on the field of battle itself, among swirling smoke and clattering grapeshot, and invites us to feel for ourselves its hellishness: "men on both sides were hollering as they milled about and fired, some cursing, others praying ... not a commingling of shouts and yells but rather like a vast mournful roar." Foote's fine book is history as literature, and a welcome addition to any Civil War buff's library.
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