Title:
Through the heart of Dixie : Sherman's March and American memory / Anne Sarah Rubin.
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9781469617770
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Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : marching through metaphors -- Stories of the great march -- Southern belles and brother masons -- Freedpeople and forty acres -- Brave bummers of the West -- Uncle Billy, the Merchant of Terror -- On Sherman's track -- Songs and snapshots -- Fiction and film -- Conclusion : Rubin's March.
Summary:
"Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocn875742477
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