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Documents General William Tecumseh Sherman's three month march through North and South Carolina during the Civil War and the effect upon the local populations.

This volume deals with the destructive march of Sherman and his men through Georgia and the Carolinas. Sherman's March is the vivid narrative of General William T. Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in the closing days of the Civil War. Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness stories, Burke Davis graphically brings to life the dramatic experiences of the 65,000 Federal troops who plundered their way through the South and...

These pictures provide us with the most detailed visual source we have on the actual settings and terrain of Sherman's campaign, in many cases recording the bridges and battlements and the extent of the destruction as seen soon after the fighting.

In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E.L. Doctorow's hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic...