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Sherman's March to the Sea
Harper
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
688 pages ISBN: 0060598670 EAN: 9780060598679 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has
written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand
as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic
march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the
Confederate army but an entire society as well. With
Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses
S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to
lead the largest and riskiest operation of the war. In rich
detail, Trudeau explains why General Sherman's name is
still anathema below the Mason-Dixon Line, especially in
Georgia, where he is remembered as "the one who marched to
the sea with death and devastation in his wake." Sherman's swath of destruction spanned more than sixty
miles in width and virtually cut the South in two, badly
disabling the flow of supplies to the Confederate army. He
led more than 60,000 Union troops to blaze a path from
Atlanta to Savannah, ordering his men to burn crops, kill
livestock, and decimate everything that fed the Rebel war
machine. Grant and Sherman's gamble worked, and the march
managed to crush a critical part of the Confederacy and
increase the pressure on General Lee, who was already under
siege in Virginia. Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and
letters of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians who
suffered in their path, Southern Storm paints a vivid
picture of an event that would forever change the course of
America.
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