The Civil War: A NarrativeBy: Shelby Foote Series: Vintage Civil War Library This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Daviss farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of Americas great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Footes epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout.