# Shelby Foote

## Metadata
- Author: [[C. Stuart Chapman]]
- Full Title: Shelby Foote
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Over the two bloodiest days in American military history until that point, the Union armies suffered 1754 killed, 8408 wounded, and 2885 captured, while Confederate losses amounted to 1723 killed, 8012 wounded, and 959 missing. The total of 23,741 killed, wounded, captured, and missing soldiers represented an aggregate surpassing all of the casualties for the nation's first three wars. ([Location 247](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001UHMSXE&location=247))
- Foote joined the Democrats, who had become the vehicle for a Bourbon-tinged white supremacy, ([Location 273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001UHMSXE&location=273))
- Will Percy said the three most important works of their time were James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, and Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. ([Location 636](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001UHMSXE&location=636))
- away-Faulkner was writing what are now considered three of the greatest American novels, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August. ([Location 650](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001UHMSXE&location=650))