Marching Through Georgia
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Author | : S. M. Stirling |
Publisher | : Baen Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1991-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671720698 |
Explores the possibilities of alternative history by changing the participants and the stakes in World War II
Author | : Jerry Ellis |
Publisher | : Delta |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1996-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780385311847 |
Sherman's March from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864 brought the Confederacy to its knees. Ellis explores the route 130 years later to search for the living, breathing artifacts of the nation's most bitter war, and finds living memories of the Great Lost Cause co-existing with modern American culture.
Author | : Lee B. Kennett |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062028995 |
In this engrossing work of history, Lee Kennett brilliantly brings General Sherman's 1864 invasion of Georgia to life by capturing the ground-level experiences of the soldiers and civilians who witnesses the bloody campaign. From the skirmish at Buzzard Roost Gap all the way to Savannah ten months later, Kennet follows the notorious, complex Sherman, who attacked the devastated the heart of the Confederacy's arsenal. Marching Through Georgia describes, in gripping detail, the event that marked the end of the Old South.
Author | : John C. Inscoe |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082034138X |
"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia"
Author | : Jerry Ellis |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780820324258 |
In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. On Ellis's trek by foot from Atlanta to Savannah, he confronts the contradictions and complexities of his native region as he reflects on his own. From Macon's fabled Goat Man to Arthur "Cowboy" Brown, the Savannah street musician, we meet a vibrant, unregimented people, all of whom, like Ellis, are looking for their place with one eye on the past and one on the present.
Author | : Anne S. Rubin |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469617773 |
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory
Author | : Rachel Rodríguez |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006-02-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780805077407 |
A biography of Georgia O'Keeffe from her childhood in Wisconsin through her work in New Mexico.
Author | : Noah Andre Trudeau |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 795 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061860107 |
New York Times Bestseller A gripping, definitive account of Sherman’s legendary and destructive march through Georgia. “Mr. Trudeau’s narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one of history’s more quotable military leaders. . . . Mr. Trudeau accomplishes what he set out to do: march through the experience in all its detail.” — The Wall Street Journal In Southern Storm, award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a fascinating 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. 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.” 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.
Author | : Scott Walker |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820329338 |
Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer’s Brigade. All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier’s theft of a pie; another’s open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave’s travails as a camp orderly. Drawing on memoirs and a trove of unpublished letters and diaries, Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.
Author | : Waitman Wade Beorn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067472660X |
On October 10, 1941, the Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. This atrocity was not the routine work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness is a bone-chilling exposé of the ordinary footsoldiers who participated in the Final Solution on a daily basis. Although scholars have exploded the myth that the Wehrmacht played no significant part in the Holocaust, a concrete picture of its involvement has been lacking. Marching into Darkness reveals in detail how the army willingly fulfilled its role as an agent of murder on a massive scale. Waitman Wade Beorn unearths forced labor, sexual violence, and grave robbing, though a few soldiers refused to participate and even helped Jews. Improvised extermination progressively became methodical, with some army units going so far as to organize "Jew hunts." The Wehrmacht also used the pretense of Jewish anti-partisan warfare as a subterfuge by reporting murdered Jews as partisans. Through military and legal records, survivor testimonies, and eyewitness interviews, Beorn paints a searing portrait of an army's descent into ever more intimate participation in genocide.