Review of "Chicamauga" by Shelby Foote

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…exist, yet these other issues exist on the backs of individual struggle. The characters in these stories are the paper on which some man's great speech and declaration lie. It is the stories of these civilians, soldiers, and reincarnate survivors who teach about the civil war, both of a country and of single hearts in agony. Shelby Foote succeeds in shattering the malaise of history that covers the many realities of the Civil war era.