[Moose4]

}:-)4

[LilDarlin]

Now this is a real loss. A mind like that and the ability to put words to paper come along far too rarely.

Rest in peace, good sir. You've earned it.

[Graymatter]

I wore out several editions of his books. RIP, old companion of my gray matter.

[muleskinner]

His appearance in the PBS documentary was one of the highlights of that production. Mr. Foote's audio book "Stars in Their Courses", is superb.

Thank you, Mr. Foote

[Mike Darancette]

Who knows but it may be given to us after this life to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade and again to hastily don our gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle? Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the battle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well and there will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?

Shelby Foote has gone to answer the Long Roll --- RIP

[Fudd Fan]

Thanks for posting this. May God rest his soul. I so enjoyed his conversational style on The Civil War on PBS; such a gentle southern style. Prayers for him and his mourning family.

[Honorary Serb]

Memory Eternal!

[Uncle Fud]

A few grest vignettes from Shelby Foote's trilogy that have never left me...

Edward Baker's death at Ball's Bluff - "He who had called for sudden, bold, forward, determined war received it in the form of a bullet to the brain"

Grant sends the army south after the Wilderness - can't quote exactly, but the sense is that the Army of the Potomac had been in the cycle of fight-lose-reorganize for three years. Now they had fought and lost, and yet Grant was taking another crack at Lee....the men sang and cheered as they saw the head of their long column was turning south rather than north

And above all, his chilling account of Lincoln's assasination. Within two months of reading it, I felt compelled to visit Ford's Theatre and the Petersen house to stand where it happened.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Just, damn!

[Charlespg]

godspeed mr foote

[Renfield]

Shelby Foote reminded me a lot of my late father (who was, himself, descended from a couple of Civil War heroes, one of whom was with Lee at Appomattox). Sad day.

[SuziQ]

He was what made Ken Burn's Civil War series worth watching. He was just so low key, and had that soft gentleman's Southern Accent. He was also born the year before my Daddy, though my Daddy will have been gone 24 years this August.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Loved his books and loved listening to him. Sad passing indeed.

[Jasper]

Sad indeed!

Mr Foote, may you gently rest in arms of the Lord.

Deo Vindice

/jasper

[RightWinger]

What a shame that he's gone.
A man who presented both sides of a complex issue.

[osagebowman]

FYI - a true gentleman.

[buzzsaw6]

Condolences to the family. Reading his trilogy now (1/3 thru book 2). He was thoroughly enjoyable on the Civil War series on PBS. RIP. A fan.

[Barney59]

There is a wound in the soul of the south tonight... a great man of letters has passed...

Rest in Peace.

[leadpenny]

http://www.booktv.org/Feature/index.asp?segID=1679&schedID=374

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On Saturday, July 2 at 4:00 pm

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Re-air of the 2001 program In Depth: Shelby Foote
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Description: In September 2001, Book TV traveled to Shelby Foote's home in Memphis, Tennessee. This three hour program looks at Mr. Foote's complete body of work. The Civil War historian died Monday, June 27th, at age 88.

Author Bio: Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1916. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1935 to 1937 where he frequently contributed to the school literary magazine Carolina. Mr. Foote’s first novel, "Tournament," was published in 1949. It was followed quickly by four other works of fiction: "Follow Me Down (1950)," "Love in a Dry Season (1951)," "Shiloh (1952)", and "Jordan County (1954)". The success of "Shiloh" prompted Random House publisher Bennett Cerf to ask Mr. Foote to write a short history of the Civil War to be published for the hundredth anniversary of the conflict. He eventually worked on this three-volume history of the war for twenty years, finally completing it in 1974.The trilogy includes "Fort Sumter to Perryville," published in 1958, "Fredericksburg to Meridian" published in 1963, and finally "Red River to Appomattox," published in 1974. In 1977 Shelby Foote published "September, September," a novel about events in the south in 1957. In the early 1990s, Shelby Foote participated in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary of the Civil War. In 1998, Jay Tolson edited and published "The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy," documenting Foote's sixty year friendship with southern novelist Walker Percy through the letters they exchanged. Also in 1998, Shelby Foote wrote a 10,000 word introduction to a new Modern Library edition of Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage", the 19th century classic Civil War novel. Mr. Foote has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a lecturer at the University of Virginia and Memphis State. At the time of his death June 27th, Shelby Foote lived in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife Gwen Rapier.

Publisher: Random House 299 Park Avenue New York, NY 10171