Civil War

Shelby Foote’s Keats

In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of battle: I had thought I wouldnt sleep. It seemed I ought to make some sort of reckoning, to...

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