Shelby Foote(1916-2005)

Shelby Foote was born on 17 November 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer, known for Memphis (1992), Baseball (1994) and Rebel Forrest: The Nathan Bedford Forrest Story (2002). He was married to Gwyn Rainer, Peggy DeSommes and Tess Lavery. He died on 27 June 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

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Trivia
He joined the Mississippi National Guard as a protest to Hitler's war. His writings were interrupted when the guard was mobilized by draft in the year 1940. By 1942, Foote was commissioned and promoted to Captain. However, while at a base in Northern Ireland, Shelby was accused of insubordination because he was in Belfast without leave, visiting the Irish girl whom he later married. In 1944, Shelby Foote was court martialed and dismissed from the service.

Quotes
Picking any one moment or place is a romantic approach to history that I'm uneasy about. Singling out any one event from history as all-important. Every event is led up to by so many others, small and large. Besides, what you think about and where you'd want to go keeps changing.

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