War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign

by Anne J. Bailey

Book Overview

"I can make this march, and make Georgia howl." -William Tecumseh Sherman
The "March to the Sea" shocked Georgians from Atlanta to Savannah. For the first time, suffering and carnage came to their very doorsteps in the form of 60,000 battle-hardened Union troops led by General William Tecumseh Sherman. In the late autumn of 1864, as his troops cut a four-week long path of terror through Georgia, Sherman accomplished his objective: to destroy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084202851X
• ISBN13: 9780842028516
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"