This volume is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of great armies. For the fourth time, the Army of the Potomac (now under the control of Burnside) attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the blood-bath at Fredericksburg. Then Joe Hooker tries again, only to be repulsed at Chancellorsville as Stonewall Jackson turns his flank-a bitter victory for the South, paid for by the death of Lee's foremost lieutenant.
Author Bio
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote was a well-regarded novelist before he embarked on his three-volume military history of the Civil War--THE CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE--which took over 25 years to complete and has become a near-classic. His novel SHILOH gives the Confederate view of the battle in which one of his ancestors fought. A Southerner firmly rooted in the land and in its history, Foote wrote about his unique double perspective in THE NOVELISTS' S VIEW OF HISTORY. He became known to television viewers when he appeared as one of the commentators in Ken Burns's monumental television documentary THE CIVIL WAR.
