There are 3 books in the Vintage Civil War Library series. The newest book is Red River to Appomattox which came out in 1974.

This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account…
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Fredericksburg to Meridian

Book cover of Fredericksburg to Meridian
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for comments). In this dramatic second volume the scope and…

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Red River to Appomattox

Book cover of Red River to Appomattox
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

Twenty years ago, in 1954, novelist Shelby Foote began this monumental work with these words: "It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate..."

In the…