"Battle Cry of Freedom" was for a long time the preferred basic text for college-level Civil War courses.
I'm not sure whether that is still true today, but I believe it is still widely used. Anyone seen any recent surveys on what books are most popular among professors today?
Yeah, that's where I read it. Saturday class in the basement of the library at the University of South Carolina @ Columbia. That was the only time I was interested in that book. To me, its ok. Kind of in that Foote level. No, not that bad.