Sherman's March in Myth and Memory

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 211 pages
"General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating "March to the Sea" in 1864 burned a swath through the cities and countryside of Georgia and into the history of the American Civil War. As they moved from Atlanta to Savannah - destroying homes, buildings, and crops; killing livestock; and consuming supplies - Sherman and the Union army ignited not only southern property, but also imaginations, in both the North and the South. By the time of the general's death in 1891, when one said "The March," no explanation was required. That remains true today."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

Burning the March into Memory
1
Sherman
9
IndustrialStrength Sherman The Press the Idea the Myth
37
Sherman among the Historians
65
Still Marching Sherman in Literature
89
Long Remember Sherman on Stage and Screen in Song and Poetry
129
In Shermans Tracks
147
The March and Its Myths
179
Bibliography
187
Index
199
About the Authors
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