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Civil War, a narrative written by Shelby Foote, who, instead of inventing characters and incidents, searched them out, and having found them, took them as they were. Many books by military experts or profesional historians went into the making of these books. The most useful and largest one being the 128 volume War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Each of the three novels in this series is approximately 830 pages long. The first book is titled , Fort Sumter to Perryville and covers the years from 1861 to 1862. Book two covers Fredericksburg to Meridian and the years 1862 to 1864. And the final novel in this series titled Red River to Appomattox covers 1864 to 1867.
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