The Civil War Shelby Foote Analysis

Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist who Random House Publishing Company paid to write a history of the civil war. It took him 20 years to write the 3-volume novel “The Civil War: A Narrative.” Writing 500 to 600 hundred words a day and visiting battlefields as needed to make the Novel as factual as possible with all known reliable historical writings. Treating the North and South the same writing he wrote about both the east and west battles. Using the historian’s standard of evidence for his writing. He intentionally did not include the politic or economical causes when writing this historical novel. He wanted it to tell what the North and the South Soldiers were fighting for in their own individual stories and point of view.