"The Civil War" Volume 3

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol 3. Red River to Appomattox (Shelby Foote)

First a quick note on the cover if you click the link: I have this as a three-volume set, and Amazon only has the first two volumes of that particular set. So this links to another edition, which frankly has a big dumb ugly cover, and also, has less colons in the title, which I got used to in Vol. 2. Very important business here.
As to the actual content of the book itself, well, it's more of the same from Volumes 1 and 2. Volume 3's probably my least favorite. One reason for this is because Foote's bias shows a little - probably the worst example of this is in all three volumes is his blowoff of the Fort Pillow massacre, which appears in this book. The other factor is ending fatigue; Once the actual war is wrapped up, Foote followed Jefferson Davis around and his path crosses with almost all the war's major figures so you see what happened to everyone. To be honest, I didn't really care that much. That sounds bad, I know, but there it is.
Even as my least favorite of all of the 3 volumes, all the praise I had for Volumes 1 and 2 still applies, and if you're planning on reading these, by the time you've finished the first two, I doubt you're going to quit anyway. Just don't start peeling the plastic off the cover like I did.

Grade: A