civil war

Foote’s Civil War: Spotsylvania and the Death of Jeb Stuart IFRL-NaPP-Space-rawpixel-id-440019

Foote’s Civil War: Spotsylvania and the Death of Jeb Stuart

J.L. Wall May 16, 2011

As the narrator turns his eye to Grant’s first Eastern campaign—the Forty Days—the shift is from chivalry...

Foote’s Historia IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.gorge-near-amalfi

Foote’s Historia

J.L. Wall April 12, 2011

There’s something to be said for attempting to read Foote’s Civil War at the same time as...

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