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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Stuart Foote (1804–1880)

Foote, Henry Stuart. An American statesman and author; born in Fauquier County, VA, Sept. 20, 1804; died in Nashville, TN, May 20, 1880. In 1847 he was chosen to the United States Senate; resigning in 1852 to serve as governor of his State. Subsequently he was elected to the Confederate Congress. His publications include: ‘Texas and the Texans’ (2 vols., 1841); ‘The War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis’ (1866); and ‘Personal Reminiscences.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).