Review of "Chicamauga" by Shelby Foote

Suffering has no flag. Pain has no territory. Death visits us all. These are human experiences which transcend any qualities we may attribute to ourselves. Most people have heard and read of the politics, the power, and the epic battles of the civil war era. In "Chicamauga", compiled and partially written by Shelby Foote, we see our own eyes in the eyes of the nameless and formless soldiers and victims of a country divided. Through fiction, Foote succeeds in showing the striking imperfection and cold reality of the civil war's events as opposed to our usual objectification and rom…