Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaignpor Lee B. Kennett
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very good history of Sherman's march from Tennessee thru Georgia & into S. Carolina. Not a typical Civil War battle book as it spends more time on the locals and the effects on local areas. This is a truly masterful study in the seemingly uninteresting topic of military gvernment. It is interesting both as a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Union dealt with the administration of newly captured and imperfectly pacified territory and also in the author's excavation of fascinating low-level functionaries and their whims. 3122 Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaign, by Lee Kennett (read 24 Oct 1998) This book does not spend much time on battle tactics, but tells a lot about soldiers and Georgians. About 13% of Georgians were affected by Sherman's march, and after Atlanta there wasn't much in the way of battles. The book is full of anecdotal material and paints I think a pretty true picture of events in Georgia in late 1864. The suffering of civilians was great, but Gone With the Wind immortalized a picture which could be, in specific instances, accurate. The book is worth reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
General William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia endlessly fascinates Americans, northern and southern. Marking the end of the Old South, it is one of the most bitterly remembered campaigns of the Civil War, and has long been captured in people's minds by Gone With the Wind's depiction of Atlanta going up in flames. With Marching Through Georgia, acclaimed author and historian Lee Kennett fires this fascination by vividly capturing the ground-level experiences of the soldiers and civilians who witnessed the bloody siege that would be the turning point in America's most brutal war. Beginning with the opening skirmish at Buzzard Roost Gap and continuing all the way to Savannah ten months later, Kennett analyzes the notorious, complex General Sherman, a military figure of uncompromising dedication who, at any cost, would attack the heart of the Confederacy's arsenal, leaving mass destruction in his wake. Politically the march dealt a devastating blow to the Confederate war machine, virtually securing Lincoln's reelection. Historically it set the stage for the end of the most vicious war in American history. Socially it forever changed the way war is waged, wreaking havoc on the lives of thousands of citizens who had previously thought themselves safe precisely because they were civilians. Georgians - led by their popular governor, Joseph Brown, whose single-minded dedication to his home state would bring him into endless conflict with Confederate president Jefferson Davis - would be faced with an insurmountable enemy who embraced the "modern" idea of making war on the enemy nation in its entirety. Capturing the striking, previously unrecorded, tiny tragedies that struck both individuals and families, and interweaving accounts of prewar life in the cities of Georgia with searing battlefield depictions and histories of both armies fighting at Atlanta, Lee Kennett's compelling narrative of Sherman's campaign casts the enduring final chapter in America's bloodiest war in a fascinating new light. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)973.7378History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Operations Campaign of 1864 concluded South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (14 Nov.-31 Dec.)Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |