It is time to put the Foote down, and that Foote is him

Or

The Shelby Foote Soldiers become Shelby Pall Bearers

(Courtesy of Craig)

Shelby Foote, whose exhaustive 3-volume, 1.5-million word history of the Civil War landed him a bigger role in Ken Burns’ documentary than Robert E. Lee, has died at the age of 88. Taking a Southern novelist’s approach, the Civil War unfolded over almost 3,000 pages that took 20 years to write, or 5 times longer than it took to fight.