GDG- Shelby Foote's sources

[Margaret D. Blough]

There is also McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" which is very readable and impeccably scholarly.  McPherson has never seen scholarship and readability as being inconsistent in any way.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> <> incredibly dry. Let's allow for the poetic.>> 
> 
> And fortunately not all Civil War historians are cut from the same writing 
> cloth. Case in point is Stephen Sears whose style makes for easy and 
> enjoyable reading. His background as a journalist no doubt accounts for 
> that. 
> 
> Tom Ryan 
> 
> 
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