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And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, e... (more Shelby Foote quotes)
Historian and author. His 3-volume set "The Civil War: A Narrative" is one of the standard reference works on the subject.
He joined the Mississippi National Guard as a protest to Hitler's war. His writings were interrupted when the guard was mobilized by draft in the year 1940. By 1942, Foote was commissioned and promoted to Captain. However, while at a base in Northern Ireland, Shelby was accused of insubordination because he was in Belfast without leave, visiting the Irish girl whom he later... (more Shelby Foote trivia)
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