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Title: Shelby Foote, RIP
Source: Booktv.org
URL Source: http://booktv.org/Feature/index.asp?segID=1679&schedID=374
Published: Jul 4, 2005
Author: Shelby Foote
Post Date: 2005-07-04 12:14:09 by Arator
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Keywords: Shelby, Foote,
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Shelby Foote died recently. If you've never read his three volume near-life's work, "The Civil War: A Narrative," do. One cannot understand America without also understanding what happened here between 1861 and 1865 and how it changed us. And there is no better way to understand it than to live it vicariously through Shelby Foote's powerful prose.

A man of the Mississippi Delta, Shelby Foote speaks with a drawl as thick as mollasses. He represents to my mind the quintessence of what it means to be a Southerner. Though I live in the benighted North, and my family's Southern heritage had been rendered a faint echo from a conquered land no longer my own, I rediscovered my Southern soul largely thanks to the life and writings of this good man.

To recover something of our American past that regrettably passes on when men like Shelby Foote leave us, watch/listen to the three hour in depth call-in interwiew of Shelby Foote done in September of 2001 on C-SPAN's Book TV. You'll be glad you did.


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#1. To: Arator (#0)

Have you read the book?

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2005-07-04   12:18:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#1)

Have you read the book?

Yep. It's three large volumes and close to 3000 words, but not a word is wasted. You literally live the war vicariously while reading it. It may take six months to finish, but you'll not regret a single minute. For me, it was a life-altering, mind-expanding and paradigm-shifting experience.

Arator  posted on  2005-07-04   12:24:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Arator (#2)

What did you think about Stonewall Jackson's part in the war?

TaZ  posted on  2005-07-04   12:36:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: TaZ (#4)

What did you think about Stonewall Jackson's part in the war?

I know you didn't ask me but he was the architect of the Pa. invasion which led to Gettysburg.

He wanted the rail yards in Harrisburg to cut-off coal supplies to the Union's blockade fleet.

Grumble Jones  posted on  2005-07-04   14:49:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Grumble Jones, Arator (#7)

An excellent biography on Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is "Stonewall Jackson; Portrait of a Soldier".

It was THE book that opened my eyes to the Second War of Independence (a.k.a. The Civil War)...if Jackson HAD survived to Gettysburg, things would have turned-out MUCH differently.

Lee was lost without Jackson, and while Lee was a GREAT stateman & organizational military leader, it was Jackson that WAS the BRAINS of the Confederate's Military.

In fact, the German tactic "Blitzkrieg" was derived from Jackson's exploits.

Excerpt from the book:

Still, Jackson sensed what others only glimpsed and were too exhausted to act upon. McDowell was thoroughly beaten and there was no Federal defense between Manassas and the US Capital. He could end the war. The war was over if they acted now...He said to Beauregard, to Johnson, to Stuart, to all who could move - "Let me take my brigade and I'll be in Washington tonight. We'll take the White House. We'll end it all and have no more bloodshed".

Of course, the Confederates as usual wimped-out when it came to going for the jugular, too bad because later they would learn that's exactly what the Feds would do.

Stonewall Jackson, the man that constantly defeated the best Lincoln could throw at him (sometimes while outnumbered 7 to 1), saved Lee's bacon at Chancellorsville by defeating Hooker from the rear (talk about apt analogies), only to be shot by a Confederate moron.

IMHO the story of Free-America can be told in his life, as it also ended with it.

TaZ  posted on  2005-07-04   15:38:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: TaZ (#12)

Still, Jackson sensed what others only glimpsed and were too exhausted to act upon. McDowell was thoroughly beaten and there was no Federal defense between Manassas and the US Capital. He could end the war. The war was over if they acted now...He said to Beauregard, to Johnson, to Stuart, to all who could move - "Let me take my brigade and I'll be in Washington tonight. We'll take the White House. We'll end it all and have no more bloodshed".

Likewise, the unengaged brigades of Bonham and Longstreet were watching the Union retreat from some woods alongside the Little River Turnpike in Centreville. Just as the associated artillery was about to fire on the retreating troops, to be followed by an infantry advance, an adjutant under Johnson gave the order not to open fire. Longstreet challenged the order, but Bonham (who was senior commander on the field) supported the order, so the two brigades watched the Union troops continue their flight, then recrossed Blackburn Ford. See,e.g., From Manassas to Appamattox.

DeaconBenjamin  posted on  2005-07-04   16:04:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: DeaconBenjamin (#17)

Just imagine what the USA would be like if Jackson & Longstreet had marched into the District of Criminals and hung Lincoln from a tree...if only I had a time machine ;-)

TaZ  posted on  2005-07-04   16:07:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#21. To: TaZ (#18)

Just imagine what the USA would be like if Jackson & Longstreet had marched into the District of Criminals and hung Lincoln from a tree...if only I had a time machine ;-)

We might be several confederated republics of sovereign states, each one as free or freer than the original, instead of deracinated, utterly-exploded subject-masses employed by a few corporate collossae, each one the malignant outgrowth of the imperium that supplanted our once ordered liberty.

Arator  posted on  2005-07-04 16:25:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: TaZ (#18)

Check out Turtledove's alternate history of the US beginning with How Few Remain, a novel depicting the second war between the states 20 years after the Confederate defeat of the Union. The reason for the Confederate victory in 1862 in the first war follows from the retrieval and return of the 3 cigars wrapped in General Lee's Special Order 191 which, in the real world, allowed McClellan to carry the field over Lee at Antietam.

I've always enjoyed Turtledove's alternate histories, particularly the ones grounded well in historical fact as well as characters (As opposed to The Guns of the South and the World War series which involved time travel interference and alien intervention respectively).

Axenolith  posted on  2005-07-04 17:05:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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