Shelby Foote Quotes about War

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

Shelby Foote

Memories, War, Loss

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Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

Shelby Foote

War, History, United States

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

Shelby Foote

War, Hell, Crossroads

Shelby Foote (1995). “The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863”

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Shelby Foote

Country, War, History

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

Shelby Foote

War, Fighting, Men

Shelby Foote (1986). “The Civil War, a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, Vintage

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

Shelby Foote

War, Learning Experience, Grants

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Shelby Foote

War, Writing, Good Day

Shelby Foote Quotes about War

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