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Sherman's March in Myth and Memory (Paperback)
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Sherman's March in Myth and Memory (Paperback)
Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
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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. Legends and myths about
Sherman began forming during the March itself, and took more
definitive shape in the industrial age in the late-nineteenth
century. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory examines the emergence
of various myths surrounding one of the most enduring campaigns in
the annals of military history. Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown
provide a brief overview of Sherman's life and his March, but their
focus is on how these myths came about such as one description of a
"60-mile wide path of destruction" and how legends about Sherman
and his campaign have served a variety of interests. Caudill and
Ashdown argue that these myths have been employed by groups as
disparate as those endorsing the Old South aristocracy and its
"Lost Cause," and by others who saw the March as evidence of the
superiority of industrialism in modern America over a retreating
agrarianism. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory looks at the
general's treatment in the press, among historians, on stage and
screen, and in literature, from the time of the March to the
present day. The authors show us the many ways in which Sherman has
been portrayed in the media and popular culture, and how his
devastating March has been stamped into our collective memory."
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