false 2683537 2 <p> 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&#8212;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." </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians who suffered in their path, <i>Southern Storm</i> paints a vivid picture of an event that would forever change the course of America. </p> 2708851 1 8 2008 Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea total:17|5:4|4:7|3:5|2:1|1:0| 17 65 60 10 3 1 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 20:24:41 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 04:57:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 11:02:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 12:58:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 26 14:49:58 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:41:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 10 22:41:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 22:45:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 31 18:21:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 18:22:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 20:12:36 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 14:25:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 27 05:58:48 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 06:02:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 10 05:26:33 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 03:46:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 08 17:51:33 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 18:47:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 28 16:31:15 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:06:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 16:33:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:25:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:25:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 24 12:02:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:02:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 09:05:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:05:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 09:36:38 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:36:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 28 14:36:07 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 14:36:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 15:29:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:29:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 07:05:59 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 07:05:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 12:06:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:06:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 23:30:29 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 23:30:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 03 17:18:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 17:18:36 -0700 2009