| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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The American crisis series |
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American crisis series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Burning the march into memory -- Sherman -- Industrial-strength Sherman : the press, the idea, the myth -- Sherman among the historians -- Still marching : Sherman in literature -- Long remember : Sherman on stage and screen, in song and poetry -- In Sherman's tracks -- The march and its myths. |
| Summary |
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, andcrops; 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 explanationwas required. That remains true today. Legends and myths about Sherman began forming du. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Historiography.
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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- In literature.
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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- In motion pictures.
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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. (OCoLC)fst00049712
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Sherman's March through the Carolinas (1865) (OCoLC)fst01801851
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Sherman's March to the Sea (1864) (OCoLC)fst01801852
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Sherman, William T.
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Sherman's March through the Carolinas -- Historiography.
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Sherman's March to the Sea -- Historiography.
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HISTORY.
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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Geschichtsschreibung.
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| Chronological Term |
1864 - 1865
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| Added Author |
Ashdown, Paul, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caudill, Edward. Sherman's march in myth and memory. 1st pbk. ed. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009, ©2008 9780742550285 (OCoLC)605876088 |
| ISBN |
9781442201279 (electronic bk.) |
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1442201274 (electronic bk.) |
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