Shelby Foote's Civil War Ancestor

My recent video about Union Commodore Andrew Hull Foote prompted this question from a subscriber: “Is that Foote related to Shelby Foote?” I went down the research rabbit hole to look for a connection and learned a lot about Shelby's great grandfather, Hezekiah. Here's the story.

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