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On the Web
- New York State Writers Institute: Shelby Foote - Biography, short summary of "Red River to Appomattox," and streaming audio of Foote talking about his writing.
- University of North Carolina: Shelby Foote Papers Inventory - Short biography of Foote and description of the collection in the UNC Chapel Hill Library.
- C-SPAN Booknotes: Shelby Foote - Transcript, narrated slideshow, and RealVideo streaming of an interview with Foote on the publication of his "Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign."
- Shelby Foote, Mississippi Writer - Biography, bibliography, review of "Love in a Dry Season," interview, and related links. Provided by the Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville (MS) High School.
- Shelby Foote - The Homer of the Old South? - Obituary from Slate.
- Academy of Achievement: Shelby Foote - Biography of and interview with the novelist and historian, discussing his career, influences, works, and philosophy.
Wikipedia Articles
- Shelby Foote - Greenville, Mississippi
- Shiloh (historical novel) - Shiloh: a novel is a historical novel about the American Civil War battle of that name, written in 1952 by Shelby Foote. It employs the first-person perspectives of several protagonists, Union and Confederate, to give a moment-by-moment depiction of the battle.
- The Civil War: A Narrative - The Civil War: A Narrative (1974), a three volume, 3,000-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote, is the work for which he is best known.
- Sloosh - Sloosh was a form of cornbread that was popular during the American Civil War, especially among Confederate soldiers. Civil war historian Shelby Foote described it as a mixture of cornmeal, lard, water and egg formed around a rifle ramrod and cooked over a campfire.