The Civil War: A Narrative: Red River to AppomattoxSelected 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 third and last volume of this vivid history, he brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid