“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”
Quote by Shelby Foote
Work
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
This volume of The Civil War: A Narrative series provides an in-depth examination of the pivotal events and military campaigns that marked the beginning of the American Civil War. It covers the conflict's origins, the first major battles, and the strategic and political landscape of the early war years. more
Author
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote was an American historian and author, renowned for his works on the American Civil War. Born on November 17, 1916, and passing away on June 27, 2005, Foote's writing style was marked by its vivid storytelling and rich historical detail, earning him high regard among scholars and the general public alike. more
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