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Resisting Sherman - A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865 (Paperback)
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Resisting Sherman - A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865 (Paperback)
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List price R468
Loot Price R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
You Save R101 (22%)
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Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the
Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of
characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the
course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman: A
Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas,
1865, by Francis Marion Robertson (edited by Thomas H. Robertson,
Jr.) fills in many of the gaps and adds tremendously to our
knowledge of this region and those troubled final days of the
Confederacy. Surgeon Francis Robertson fled Charleston with the
Confederate garrison in 1865 in an effort to stay ahead of General
Sherman's Federal army as it marched north from Savannah. The
Southern high command was attempting to assemble General Joseph E.
Johnston's force in North Carolina for a last-ditch effort to
defeat Sherman and perhaps join with General Lee in Virginia, or at
least gain better terms for surrender. Dr. Robertson, a West
Pointer, physician, professor, politician, patrician, and
Presbyterian, with five sons in the Confederate army, kept a daily
journal for the final three months of the Civil War while traveling
more than 900 miles through four states. His account looks
critically at the decisions of generals from a middle ranking
officer's viewpoint, describes army movements from a ground level
perspective, and places the military campaign within the everyday
events of average citizens suffering under the boot of war. Editor
and descendant Thomas Robertson followed in his ancestor's
footsteps, conducting exhaustive research to identify the people,
route, and places mentioned in the journal. Sidebars on a wide
variety of related issues include coverage of politics and the
Battle of Averasboro, where one of the surgeon's sons was shot. An
extensive introduction covers the military situation in and around
Charleston that led to the evacuation described so vividly by
Surgeon Robertson, and an epilogue summarizes what happened to the
diary characters after the war. Resisting Sherman is a valuable
addition to Civil War literature.
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