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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7378
EAN: 9780060598679
ISBN: 0060598670
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: August 05, 2008
Sales Rank: 3584
Studio: Harper
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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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If you are interested in the serious details of Sherman's March to the Sea, this book has it. Obviously well-researched, the book details the movements of each part of Sherman's army between Atlanta and Savannah. A series of geat maps will allow you to follow the movements day by day. As the title "Southern Storm" implies, there is a lot of material on the effects of the march on the Georgia population in Sherman's path. Although I like quotes from the participants of the times, there is a bit ... Read More
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While heavily laden with statistics, especially corps and division movements/whereabouts, I found the book a great read. I was previously unaware of the immense logistical undertaking this campaign presented. And I really enjoyed the numerous quotes from the hundreds of letters and diaries from participants. Just obtaining and vetting that treasure trove of material had to be a huge undertaking. Highly recommended, especially for Civil War and military history fans.
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Let me just say that this opinion is highly subjective. I like a certain type of Civil War book, and this just really wasn't it, but that doesn't mean others won't love this book.
I prefer a steady operational type book, you know, where the divisions, brigades moved, peppered with excellent maps. While this book had both, it is mostly a book of quotes from diaries and contemporaries about the Southern condition. It just didn't "flow", like a Cozzens or Sears or Rhea book does. Maybe ... Read More
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A very solid, workman-like account of Sherman's march through Georgia, but not especially emotionally engaging. It does stop at Savannah though, there's nothing on the continuation of the campaign into South Carolina and North Carolina. There are no great battles here, those pretty much ended with the capture of Atlanta. One point made quite clearly in this book is that Sherman did his best to avoid major confrontation with the Confederate forces and split his force into two prongs to at least appear ... Read More
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Sherman's so-called "March to the Sea" is the stuff of American legend. The popular view of it as Total War with the goal of attacking civilians is utterly wrong. Nor was it, as Sherman later claimed, a mere relocation of headquarters from Atlanta to a port on the sea at Savannah. Noah Andre Trudeau takes us through the entire campaign including its origins, and a very detailed and almost day-by-day and mile-by-mile process of Sherman's forces through the forests and swamps of Georgia in November and ... Read More
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