The film is a comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War, and the recipient of 40 ... Southern novelist Shelby Foote is the series' eloquent principal on-camera interview.

Here's a war that took more lives than all other American wars combined ... it's the Shelby Foote set in the Civil War, it's the crossroads of our being, it's the crucible out of which we became ...

Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

Foote (Texas A&M), examines the Union’s campaign ... This reviewer highly recommends Rites of Retaliation, which the Organization of American Historians declared the best book on the Civil War and ...